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This book took me forever to read. It's beautifully written and I enjoyed each chapter, but what made it frustrating and slow for me is that it's really a collection of vignettes, not a novel. Each chapter - and there are fourteen of them - tells the story about a different person, moving forward through generations. The first two chapters are about sisters in Ghana who, born and raised in different villages, never knew each other. One sister raises a family in Ghana while the other is taken on
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4.5 stars. Epic and dizzying in its reach. Beautiful. This story of humanity - difficult to read at times - will be unforgettable.
Read very slowly at night over a year. Sweeping and epic, yes, but without the bite of "The Underground Railroad."
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Jun 03, 2016
Nadine
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it was amazing
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Jul 11, 2016
Karen
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it was amazing
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general-fiction,
historical-fiction
Aug 22, 2017
Heather
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it was amazing
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Apr 14, 2017
Cheryl
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it was amazing
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