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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman

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monicats's review

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

jimmacsyr's review against another edition

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4.0

Part history and part diary, with lessons on how the same facts are woven into different stories. It also provides a sharp commentary on how groups view gloss over/silence painful histories.

lottesuardi's review against another edition

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challenging reflective slow-paced

3.5

kmatthe2's review against another edition

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5.0

A powerful reflection on the inability to write in the silences of history that are Black stories of enslavement and the Middle Passage.

parisaad90's review against another edition

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3.0

This book is a memoir combing history with personal narrative. In Hartman's own words, "I'm interested in the popular memory of slavery. My plan is to retrace the slave route" (27). I found Lose Your Mother more of a history book (with erased events), than a literary book. But definitely it is recommended for those who want to get an understanding of slavery and Atlantic slave routes.