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Just reread this for the first time in many many years... one of childhood's books that doesn't lose much when rediscovered years later. Amazing.
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The witch trial part of this book was one of my favorite pieces of literature from childhood, and it holds up, really well. The enslavement and settler colonialism parts of this book, though, the ones that are wildly racist, weren't ok then, but now I'm older and wiser and have been exposed to a lot more people and can see that they're not ok.
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This is on the shortlist for my desert island list. I have no idea how many times I have read it since 1990, but it's not enough to diminish the magic.
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