I didn’t like Jonah’s Vine Gourd.  It jumped around between people, time, and scenes too much and the country dialect threw me too.  I was tempted to not finish several times.  Book had a lot of violence, sinning and smart allic comments that seemed juvenile.  The scene where Ned and Amy fought in the kitchen was crazy.  And the statement that black people need to learn to love their children now because they weren’t allowed to before was so powerful.  I wanted to love this book but did not.