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3.5 stars rounded to 4.
I wanted to like this 2016 National Book Award and 2017 Pulitzer more than I did, but having said that, I’m glad our book group chose this book and will look forward to talking about it at the end of this month. It has a place in the novels of slavery narratives and not surprisingly is a heartbreaking, violent and a thrilling read as a runaway slave Cora is hunted throughout the book with the slave catcher Ridgeway ever at her heels.
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I wanted to like this 2016 National Book Award and 2017 Pulitzer more than I did, but having said that, I’m glad our book group chose this book and will look forward to talking about it at the end of this month. It has a place in the novels of slavery narratives and not surprisingly is a heartbreaking, violent and a thrilling read as a runaway slave Cora is hunted throughout the book with the slave catcher Ridgeway ever at her heels.
The writing has been described as deta ...more
Technically I took a week to read this, but really I devoured most of this book today. It’s a quick read in that the tension compounds as the story progresses and I didn’t find a moment where I felt comfortable leaving Cora to go do my regular 2018 life things. The episodic nature of the plot and grim historical adventures verging on magical realism reminded me a lot of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Sep 18, 2016
shannon
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Dec 01, 2016
Lynne
marked it as to-read-historical-fiction
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Jen Donnelly
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Feb 26, 2017
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