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Another award-winning book that I didn't get...
There were some beautiful sentences, and the author did a good job of painting the experiences of black slaves. They were cruel, and they were horrifying. The thought of one human race think they could own and threat another human race in such manner is appalling and disgust to me. And I got all of those feelings from the book. But there was something lacking. Something deeper.
It didn't pull me in. And there was dissatisfaction and many remaining qu ...more
There were some beautiful sentences, and the author did a good job of painting the experiences of black slaves. They were cruel, and they were horrifying. The thought of one human race think they could own and threat another human race in such manner is appalling and disgust to me. And I got all of those feelings from the book. But there was something lacking. Something deeper.
It didn't pull me in. And there was dissatisfaction and many remaining qu ...more
<3 Cora <3
Whitehead's fiction reads like history: painful, extreme, layered, personal. Everyone should read this book. It's not historically precise so much as it encompasses much of the African American journey from slavery toward something approaching freedom in ways that resonate with the facts and with lived experiences that seem impossible but are highly probable. I'm sorry I can't give this the profound review it deserves, because I simply do not have the words to describe it. ...more
Whitehead's fiction reads like history: painful, extreme, layered, personal. Everyone should read this book. It's not historically precise so much as it encompasses much of the African American journey from slavery toward something approaching freedom in ways that resonate with the facts and with lived experiences that seem impossible but are highly probable. I'm sorry I can't give this the profound review it deserves, because I simply do not have the words to describe it. ...more
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