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3.59 AVERAGE
3.59 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
This year, I have read books about cyborgs in a pandemic, uncontrollable time traveling and a woman who can poison another woman just by braiding her hair. This book is weirder than all of these combined.
This book is weird as hell, but it introduced the term “snow honkies” to the world, so that's huge.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
adventurous
funny
hopeful
informative
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Part slave narrative, part Gulliver's Travels, this strange book is an important new addition to the literary contextualization of race in America, not to mention a funny page-turning adventure. The novel is largely structured in the slave narrative tradition, but add to that the fact that it is also partly a fictional academic study by a scholar (footnotes and all), and what you have is a an ingeniously self-aware book that performs a high-wire act between the bounds of fiction and literary criticism. A cerebral, fantastical, and thoroughly clever book that had me nodding my head, laughing, and gasping along the way.
adventurous
dark
funny
informative
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery
Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Blood, Excrement, Cannibalism, Alcohol, Colonisation
A novel about the absurdity of race and racial categories; about slavery: physical, mental, and spiritual; and about the hilarious absurdity of academia. And it's very, very funny.
BRILLIANT, hilarious, must read novel of the year!!! Pick up a copy while it's still in HC. Beautifully made, read-aloud hilarious, smart, literary - wow!
Will add my thoughts in a bit. Thanks Molly for choosing such an interesting book club book!