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I really shouldn’t be surprised by how good this is

The passage that the excerpt on the back jacket is pulled from…oof. Thinking a lot about the Joy Harjo poem “Perhaps the world Ends here” and the concept of ties that bind.

i really should start reading synopses

Guelph mention!

Wish I had annotating materials lying around but the notes app will just have to do.
“To earn her respect. All the good in him, what little there is. Trying to be loved by her. His morality. Principle of his life”

The first and second half feel so disconnected

nearing the finish line

“What struck me most, what kept me awake that night, was the men's impatient boredom as they went about their business. Ever since, I have associated political violence with boredom and impatience.”

Very prescient

Have some ideas about the way Min Jin Lee writes about gender percolating

The whole passage about the returned passers and the white children of a Black grandma - "You've seen me, glimpsed his face in mine. You will never have a clean white slate again. You will never be able to forget that I may be the Negro grandmother who turned you away. I refused you"