THE BOOK CORNER FOR JULY 2009

Moses, Man of the Mountain
by Zora Neale Hurston

Hurston incorporates the African tradition into her retelling of the Exodus story. The novel is remarkably faithful to the original. Moses is presented warts and all. As expected, he's the savior who leads a slave nation from captivity to the freedom of a Promised Land, the wise prophet who brings law and government to an unruly and divided people. Hurston manages to make this timeworn story new again for modern readers.