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I really enjoyed this book. It's the story of a young girl searching for answers about her deceased mother. The author does so much more with the story than most books on the same subject and her writing is amazing. I think we did if for book club, but I'm not sure.
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I read this because it was the book everyone was reading together for a program at the library. And my mom said it was good. It was. Very woman powery, with bee info, and a bit of civil rights stuff thrown in.
I think this book works best when read as a fable for making your own family and opening your heart to the world instead of waiting for the world to come to you. Read as a more straightforward narrative, the one-dimensional characters and simplified racial coding (black people are close to nature and in touch with their emotions; white people are neither until they learn to be so from their experiences with black people) are frustrating and disheartening.
Pretty good story, although it wasn't a book that I couldn't put down. I figured the story out before the main character did. Good ending.
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I read this because everyone was reading it. It was pretty entertaining.
Aug 22, 2007
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