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sakisreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
In saying that, I love the complicated and human relationship between Trelawny and Delano. Families, eh 🤷🏻♀️
3 out of 5 stars for me, thank you ✨ Content warnings below!
Graphic: Grief, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, and Colonisation
theblushbookworm's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Moderate: Abandonment and Racism
miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Liked how it moved between a few character narratives but still felt really cohesive
Graphic: Abandonment, Death, Racism, Sexual harassment, and Xenophobia
mmccombs's review
2.5
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and Racism
Moderate: Murder
internationalreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Body shaming, Abandonment, Addiction, Child death, Classism, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Cultural appropriation, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Death, Dementia, Drug use, Grief, Racism, Xenophobia, Sexual content, and Suicide
Minor: Death of parent and Cancer
2treads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Escoffery's stories are smart, realized, and stunning. They are at their core stories for so many Jamaican families, mired in colourism and classism(racism), fidelity, freedom of self, and self-actualization. Steeped in obvious experiences, each story traces the movement of this not-Black but maybe-Black family in a country where everyone is labelled.
Trelawny acts as the locus for this novel, born to Jamaican parents who yearn for the island they were able to flee when violence erupts, he struggles to cement himself within a cultural structure that seems determined to pigeonhole him.
Escoffery explores the many ways in which power dynamics exist and shift between members and within the family structure, how acceptance and identity can affect self-worth and self-actualization and determine the very ways we move through relationships.
'But answers in the mouths of the untrustworthy are worthless.' ‐ Trelawny
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Classism, Abandonment, Trafficking, and Racism
Minor: Murder and Child death