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4.35 AVERAGE
4.35 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
One of my top 5 favorite books of all time. If I could give this a million stars I would. I wish the author could have finished the sequel, but feel privileged to know the first few chapters. Highly recommend.
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Dark, but realistic depiction of life during the attempts of desegregation in the South. Tangy Mae is a child who must try to predict the moods and actions of her crazed mother to try to protect herself and her 7 siblings. Her older brothers are trying to fight for equal rights, while her mother keeps on dragging her older sister out to the farmhouse for mysterious night visits. Tangy Mae's goal is to get her diploma, but her mother wants her to get a job to help keep up the household. Delores Phillips tells this story in a way that involves your emotions. You feel the anger, resentment, embarrassment, fear, and sorrow along with the Quinn family.
This book is hitting a little too close to home and it's affecting my mental health so I'm dnfing it for now. The mother is an absolute monster. This story is beautifully written, but tragic ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ’”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Abortion, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
This book packs a plethora of social ills: racism and discrimination—check; extreme poverty in a country setting with a ramshackle house—check; single, mentally ill mom with ten children by ten different men—check; prostitution and girls pimped out by their mother—check; violence, extreme physical abuse of children, with a lynching thrown in—check; marital infidelity and illegal, backroom abortions—check. The only thing that kept me reading until the end was to see just how much more this family could endure. Did I mention the aforementioned ramshackle house that burns up in the end, probably at the hands of the crazy, mean mother, and probably intentionally kills the lesbian daughter? I can’t figure out where the audience is for its upcoming reissue.
Can't rate this as I DNF. There is a LOT of parental abuse of a child, and it honestly got to the point that I couldn't listen anymore. It is a well written book, but I'm just not in a headspace where I can listen to the beatings in this book.
I can’t rate this one yet. It’s so disturbing, and yet it’s beautifully written. How do you rate an excellently written book about the horror of hate? I don’t know yet.