A review by sweddy65
True Grit by Charles Portis

4.0

A library copy had been sitting on my nightstand as my sweetie had wanted to read it for a while. Portis wrote it in the voice of an Arkansas woman looking back on a childhood adventure. I'I m always skeptical of men writing women or girls' voices, but this one worked. Portis employed a matter-of-fact tone for Mattie's retelling of her story.

I kept telling myself it was fiction written in the viewpoint of the main character but Mattie's pro-Confederate stance did bother me. Growing up where she did and with her family history, of course that would be her viewpoint but it made me like her a lot less.