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May 13, 2020
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I found this book to be very difficult to get through. It is marked by Morrison's beautiful prose, and tells an important story, but with all the elements of magical realism, memory, flashbacks and its discussion of the worst of American History, I found it difficult to connect and remain immersed in the tale. I admire this book far more than I love it.
Morrison is telling the story of slavery through the eyes of one woman who escaped to Ohio, but grieves the baby she buried, the friends she left ...more
Morrison is telling the story of slavery through the eyes of one woman who escaped to Ohio, but grieves the baby she buried, the friends she left ...more
This book felt like a molasses dream. The kind where you're trying to run but your limbs are so slow and heavy you don't seem to be getting anywhere. There's multiple levels of haunting in this book, and a ghost would be the least terrifying of them.
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