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Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
It's 1912 in Cynthiana, a small town in Harrison County, Kentucky, and the Civil War has been over for decades. Young Carter McGlone and his best friend Sarah Jane Williams are supposed to be gathering mushrooms when they wander into the cemetery where African-Americans are buried. Under an old sycamore tree into which has been carved the initials "S.J.+H.J. 1863" the children find a skeleton wearing a medal around its neck. Parts of what looks to have been a Union Army uniform are found on the skeleton who appears to have been a man in his twenties or early thirties. The years pass, Carter serves in World War I and comes home to Kentucky after suffering a leg wound in battle. Sarah Jane marries and Carter falls in love with Emmaline, a beautiful African-American woman. Who is the skeleton beneath the sycamore tree and why does horrid Kiernan Dougherty look at Carter and mutter the word "Jenkins"?
"The Other Side of Yesterday" is a well-written and engrossing time travel story that will take the reader from Kentucky in the 1920's back into its former years and into an involvement in the American Civil War. Main characters Carter McGlone, Sarah Jane Williams, Carter's friend Sam Jenkins, and even the other characters, especially Sarah Jane's grandmother Mary, are wonderful and their images will stay with the reader long after the story reaches its dramatic conclusion. The plot-line proceeds believably to the end of "The Other Side of Yesterday" although the reader will want to know what happened to some of the characters from the Civil War days. Kenn Grimes has written a delightful story that readers everywhere will want to put on their list of "must read" books.
