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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Reading "Salt" I feel how young the Caribbean still is. I think sometimes we forget that. Some of us are barely 50 years old, this year America turns 244 years old and look at the conundrum they are still facing. But America and any Caribbean country's trajectory aren't comparable. One country's wealth was built off slave labor while the other was left with nothing but trauma and broken backs. No 10 acres and a mule either.
"Carnival belongs to all the peoples of the island. Living as we were so close to one another, any creation or practice by any group in the island achieved its character because of the presence of the others in the midst"
Lovelace writes in such a potently Caribbean voice, it's unmistakably Trini, this energy moves through lines I revisit, soaking up and finding new meanings, thinking how relevant this text still is. I don't feel like a stranger in this novel. I'm not reading about some time in the distant past. It's narrating our recent and present state.
Salt is about everything that makes Trinidad & Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago
"Carnival belongs to all the peoples of the island. Living as we were so close to one another, any creation or practice by any group in the island achieved its character because of the presence of the others in the midst"
Lovelace writes in such a potently Caribbean voice, it's unmistakably Trini, this energy moves through lines I revisit, soaking up and finding new meanings, thinking how relevant this text still is. I don't feel like a stranger in this novel. I'm not reading about some time in the distant past. It's narrating our recent and present state.
Salt is about everything that makes Trinidad & Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
A scattered, twisting narrative of a community that speaks to the broader struggles of its life. It's hard to nail down anything concrete about this book, except that it does probably the most interesting artistic work with perspective that I've ever read.
I really enjoyed this book. The writing is vivid and beautiful. It is complex and there is a natural fluidity between the points of view that I don't think I've ever experienced reading before. It should have been harder to follow, but if works wonderfully.
I was sent this book by a friend who lives in T&T and had to do a bit of history googling since I'm not very familiar with the complex history if Trinidad and Tobago, but it was worth it.
The sort of rich text that SHOULD be on high school reading lists but gets left out.
I was sent this book by a friend who lives in T&T and had to do a bit of history googling since I'm not very familiar with the complex history if Trinidad and Tobago, but it was worth it.
The sort of rich text that SHOULD be on high school reading lists but gets left out.
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes