John’s Reviews > Memory Mambo > Status Update

All that material at the beginning with the whole family as the main character instead of the narrator really pays off.

The politics seem strikingly (depressingly?) modern, 20 years later.

And finally, we get into the inner life of the narrator! I'd started to think this book was about everybody else but her.

I can see how this won the award. It feels solid, enticing.

In which we are reminded that racial politics are complicated.