The Secrets of Newberry

Whose Gentleman? Victor McGlothin’s “The Secrets of Newberry” follows the friendship of Hampton Bynote and Ivory ‘Bones’ Arcineaux. Their friendship is developed in clandestine predicaments of petty thievery up to murder with a backdrop of a changing economic climax through the late fifties, sixties......more

This review was first posted on my blog. This book spans over 15 years of an unusual "friendship" between Ivory "Bones" and Hampton. The son of a sharecropper, Hampton has a dream of home ownership that takes him into the city in search of a better life. He and Bones meet during a raid on an illegal......more

Author, Victor McGlothin, penned an excitingly tragic tale of historical fiction hidden in The Secrets of Newberry. I found myself lost in the intertwined lives of slave descendants in the southern Louisiana bayou. The story of Hampton Bynote begins with a plantation boy that has migrated to the big......more

THE SECRETS OF NEWBERRY[return]by Victor McGlothin[return]Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group[return]$13.99/$16.99 Can; 373 pages[return]ISBN 13 :9780446178136[return]2010[return][return]Full Description from the Publisher[return][return]For Ivory Bones Arcineaux and Hampton Bynote, life in......more

Wow, what a story. I couldn't put this one down, it was so intriguing. I really liked Hampton and wanted to see everything turn out ok for him, even though he kept getting himself into trouble. The story was really well written. Hampton is looking for something more than life on a plantation can off......more