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The Salt Eaters

Toni Cade Bambara

3.8 AVERAGE

thebookbestie's review against another edition

3.75

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

katie_greenwinginmymouth's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

layadlin's review against another edition

2.5

challenging dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: No

alex_mlynek's review against another edition

4.0

challenging informative reflective tense medium-paced

chekareadswhat's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

ale_ja's review

rlly rlly love toni cade bambara’s writing style, no further comments until i can get a physical copy of this book & hold it in my hands bc digital didn’t feel like it was doing her justice in this case

freshaircure's review against another edition

3.0

This book was good, but very challenging and tough to get through. However, I enjoyed how complex it is because of its nonlinear treatment of time and its weaving together of modern and traditional elements, like nuclear physics, hoodoo, traditional healing, chaos theory, and other scientific principals that are quite unexpected to find in a novel like this. (I'm writing a paper on it for a class and am learning a lot about things I never thought I'd have to learn in an English class.)

acaciathorns's review against another edition

4.0

challenging reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

I really wanted to love this book, because it is beautifully written and the substance of the text and the interplay of characters and spaces is so powerful and rich.

But I really struggled to finish it. I am not American or Black so I couldn't image a lot of the descriptive scenes. This didn't bother me, as it's important to have books which aren't designed or written for an external audience.

What did bother me was the jumping from character to character by simply changing paragraphs. A little bit of structure there (ie dividers between each character's perspective) would have made it easier to follow.

That said, it's a powerful book that strings together so many narratives within the Black liberation movement.

akamuva's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

coolfoolmoon's review

4.25

adventurous challenging informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

If I had a nickel for every time I read an amazing book by a Black female author named Toni...

At first I didn't get it... but like... I got it, you know? Like I get it but I don't. But I get it. And, for me personally, that's some of the best writing humanity has to offer.

Unrelated to the book, kinda, I think it's funny how the conversations the revolutionaries were having in the late 70s, almost 50 years ago, are the same conversations we're having now. Not funny haha, funny sad.

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