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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (June 2021)
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This book was recommended by a friend or I may not have read it, but I'm glad I did. It took a few chapters to hook me, but it eventually did and I found myself wanting to know more about each character and who they turned out to be. I would rate it a 4.2...I think the only thing that kept it from being a five is that the characters at the children's home just seemed too one-dimensionally evil. As much as the author was able to capture the personalities and nuances of the other characters, it fe
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I'm late to the party on this book because I'm always hesitant to read things people twll me I HAVE to read. Add in a general "meh" feeling about historical fiction and this one wasn't a book I was in a hurry to pick up. Once I DID, though, I couldn't put it down. It's a genuinely gripping story based on real history that I'd never known much about, and it will rip your heart up and spit it back out. It legitimately gave me a nightmare when I read the first half before bedtime. The story of Rill
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Excellent, and completely heartbreaking. This is a part of history I was unfamiliar with, and I’m glad it’s being brought to light. I enjoyed the alternating telling of the past and present and how the two times came together. This was very well-written.
Fantastic! The last few pages made me cry. I will definitely take the time to do some extra reading into Georgia Tann and what happened; I’d never heard of this scandal before.
Another story about the experience of children of poverty being stolen and sold under the guise of protection. It was told with compassion and humanity. The characters were real and complete, and their relationships rang true and understandable given their ordeal as unwilling adoptees. This novel cracked at the hard shell of denial that can keep those of us who have not known poverty believing that children may be better off away from their roots. It felt very important in the telling of their e
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