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3.5 stars really
I don’t know how I feel about this novel. As the prompts at the end of the book pointed out, this book is a multigenerational novel similar in style to Red at the Bone and Homegoing. Perhaps this explains my very similar feelings about all three novels. I *want* to like them. I really do. But, I just didn’t enjoy them. As with those, there were parts of These Ghosts that I did enjoy but the many interweaving stories which don’t seem to have any connection until the end was just ...more
I don’t know how I feel about this novel. As the prompts at the end of the book pointed out, this book is a multigenerational novel similar in style to Red at the Bone and Homegoing. Perhaps this explains my very similar feelings about all three novels. I *want* to like them. I really do. But, I just didn’t enjoy them. As with those, there were parts of These Ghosts that I did enjoy but the many interweaving stories which don’t seem to have any connection until the end was just ...more

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