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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
A coming of age story of a young girl Selena - daughter of immigrants from Barbados - living in Brooklyn, NY in the 1940s. The book follows her from entering her teen years to reaching adulthood as she grapples with - who is she? What does she want to do?
Originally published in 1959, it holds up well. Portrays the same issues that people of color grapple with today. How to get ahead in a world dominated by racism. Whether or not you differentiate yourself as from Barbados vs being considered Black in the neighborhood.
Originally published in 1959, it holds up well. Portrays the same issues that people of color grapple with today. How to get ahead in a world dominated by racism. Whether or not you differentiate yourself as from Barbados vs being considered Black in the neighborhood.
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
informative
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:
Yes
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
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:
Yes
The language in this novel is stunning, with descriptions of the city like, “the tall lamps hidden in the leaves cast a restless design of light on the sidewalk”. Selina is a young woman torn between her parents, her community, her own values, and her home of Barbados which she has never actually seen with her own eyes. This is a tragic novel with a current of hope throughout and felt really modern, despite being written almost 70 years ago.
Complex, beautiful and gutting, with such a vivid quality it seemed at times akin to a stage play.
okay almost died trying to finish this in time for class but it was good!
Incredibly honest and heart wrenching. Marshall just gets to the heart of so many conflicts and dynamics of all different types from familial to racial and every kind between and overlapping in ways that very few authors can.