The Hypnotist

By:  Laurence Anholt
Location: FIC ANH
Genre:Historical- racial,

 

"Brilliantly written. Absolutely loved it. A bit ‘Mocking Bird’ a bit ‘Shawshank’ a bit 'The help"– a great piece of story hypnotism"

The KKK, oh my they are one organization that is purely evil and I wonder just how much generational hate is being dispersed to this day from the KKK into the angst of the USA and fueling the racism that is thriving there.

Set in the Deep South of the American 1960’s, a black orphan boy, a mute Native American servant girl and an Irish Neurology professor are an unlikely squad. In a society overwhelmed by prejudice, they must employ all of their courage, cunning and wit to free themselves from their oppressors. 

Jack has left his native Ireland and is making a new life as Professor of Neurology at a university in the American South. He has certain skills, honed over his lifetime, that he mostly keeps hidden. Skills in hypnotism and mind control . . .

Thirteen-year-old Pip is plucked out of an orphanage by a farmer, hired as a farm-hand, and as carer for the farmer's wife. But Pip is black. The farmer and his wife are white. And this is 1960s America, where race defines you and overshadows everything.

As racial tensions reach boiling point with a danger closer to home and more terrifying than either thought possible, Jack and Pip's lives become inextricably linked. And Jack's hypnotic skills are called on as never before . . . 

Its the kind of story that needs a cinematic movie experience. ...Chrystal