Mark Villareal's Reviews > Fences

I saw the original play back in 1985 with James Earl Jones and a young Courtney B. Vance. With the release of the movie with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis I was compelled to add the book to my reading list. The book is truly fulfilling as the author does a marvelous job drawing you into each character, but also the time frame and the settings. This is not done in a hurry but with effective storytelling and description. Like many stories put into movies, this book goes deeper for the reader to feel the emotion of each scene as they were a part of it.