Anna Roley

Arguably one of the worst books to be selected by America's highschools; to enshrine as a "must read" in various English classes. It did not age well past its era, nor its East Coast audience. The problems and people are all tedious. The equivalent of modern Martha's Vineyard folk having a soap opera episode. About which almost no middle class kid can care. To say nothing of poor kids. I hate this book. It deserves to be de-selected from the academic canon.