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Meanwhile, Anson finds life returning to his empty heart again. The children learn from fresh troubles at school that love is worth making sacrifices and they learn so much from Moses himself. For when a gentle, wise black man named Moses Waters befriends a white farmer named Anson Stone—who, with his three children, are just beginning to get over the loss of a wife and mother—some folks in the neighborhood do not take it kindly. Unfortunately, the title works just as well for some of the people who live on that land. county, where the ground needs a lot of “sweetening” before anything will grow. The book get its title from the soil in this corner of an unnamed, southern U. People who are bound together by loss and by love, by hard work and the enjoyment of stories, by the unfolding of nature’s beautiful secrets, and by the grim reality of the ugliness that remains in the heart of man. It does not come across as a universal parable—though it may be that—but as a portrait of a handful of very specific, individual people.

Unlike Sounder, this book is full of characters with lifelike names.

Perhaps its power lies in its personal, intimate nature. This is a companion book to Sounder, and in my opinion, an even more moving book.