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Nov 01, 2015
Krissy
marked it as dnf
I won't rate this since I didn't get very far into it. I only managed just under 2 hours of audio. I've never read this author before so I was not prepared for her type of writing style. I had a difficult time getting into the story let alone understanding wtf was going on. Plus I am not a fan of authors doing their own narration of their audiobooks. I rarely enjoy it. She just has a very breathy and sleepy voice which didn't help me at all getting into the book. But after reading a full plot su
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This is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel based on the true story of the woman slave named Margaret Garner.
In the novel "Sethe" who after escaping from the plantation "Sweet Home" that abused her, ended up murdering her baby daughter out of love!
Then after years, this daughter comes back as a presence in the house where Sethe lives. After being run out of the house by "Paul D" comes back in person!
I liked the story, but the telling of it bothered me. Going back and forth from past to present, from ...more
In the novel "Sethe" who after escaping from the plantation "Sweet Home" that abused her, ended up murdering her baby daughter out of love!
Then after years, this daughter comes back as a presence in the house where Sethe lives. After being run out of the house by "Paul D" comes back in person!
I liked the story, but the telling of it bothered me. Going back and forth from past to present, from ...more
I was reading casually, but I gathered pretty early on that I didn't understand a big part of what was happening in the book. It'll likely get another chance sometime in the future, but I'll have some Spark Notes or something nearby to help me grasp the deeper parts.
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