Leslie's review of The Darling: A Novel
The Darling: A Novel by Russell Banks
I powered through this book mostly to get it out of my system. It was a fascinating read, so well written, just begging to be read aloud. I enjoyed learning about Liberia in the 1980s through Hannah (Dawn)'s recollections. But the subject matter (coups, civil war) is so horrific and I tended to internalize the emotion that the characters did not exhibit; they were emotionally hollow (as other reviewers have pointed out) in the face of terrible atrocities. The book inhabited my dreams and now I think I need a palette cleanser - something "lite".
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