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challenging
dark
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
This was a tough read. The brutality of a slave's journey and the encouragement and interference of the spirit world somehow did not mesh for me. A bit of a slog to finish
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I mixed feelings about this read. It is beautifully written, but lacks a clear plot line. I struggled too fine a point or direction to the story. There was a lot of symbolism, I’m may have missed the subtle message behind the writing. I find that magical realism mixed with historical fiction often muddies the water for me. Due to this and the slow pacing, I didn’t enjoy this read as much as I thought I would. May try reading again… but one can only read so many books in a lifetime.
hopeful
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Annis has a bright light the reader will love to follow through this darkness, similar to Esch from Salvage the Bones. Nice blending in of the Odyssey and Dante’s Inferno. Mysticism used in such a smart and interesting way, to showcase inherited resilience, the freedom of minds and spirit which can’t be shackled along with bodies, the persistence of hope, the visiting body of grief, and Annis’s strength of character.
Best first line ever.
Jesmyn Ward is no question one of my favorite authors. I know some people have trouble getting into her.. I feel like her writing is a descendant of Toni Morrison’s, so if you don’t like one you probably won’t like the other. (And you would be wrong..).
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Best first line ever.
Jesmyn Ward is no question one of my favorite authors. I know some people have trouble getting into her.. I feel like her writing is a descendant of Toni Morrison’s, so if you don’t like one you probably won’t like the other. (And you would be wrong..).
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Dark. At first hard to read but once you catch the rhythm between the spirit world and a slave descended from a warrior women tribe in Africa, it’s a tough story of slave life through 3 generations. Focused mostly on the amazingly strong will to supervise of Arese, a black girl, it demonstrates the intense longing for freeedom to be oneself.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
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:
No