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4.07 AVERAGE
4.07 AVERAGE
Depressing, disturbing reality -don’t read if your looking for a happy ending
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
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:
Yes
it hurt so bad for these characters to hurt so bad that by the end, i was barely in it anymore— it’s also two in the morning so that probably has something to do with it
emotional
sad
slow-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
First and foremost, it took me a few chapters to realize that I have read this book before. I First and foremost, it took me a few chapters to realize that I have read this book before. I remember I remembered that I did after given’s murder is revealed.
This book is deeply sad and throughout I was deeply impressed at how Jasmin Ward balances this pain with the most lyrical language.
This book is deeply sad and throughout I was deeply impressed at how Jasmin Ward balances this pain with the most lyrical language.
No long review because book club.
“Home is about the earth. Whether the earth open up to you. Whether it pull you so close the space between you and it melt and y'all one and it beats like your heart.”
“Sometimes the world don’t give you what you need, no matter how hard you look. Sometimes it withholds.”
“There's too much blank sky where a tree once stood.”
“Home is about the earth. Whether the earth open up to you. Whether it pull you so close the space between you and it melt and y'all one and it beats like your heart.”
“Sometimes the world don’t give you what you need, no matter how hard you look. Sometimes it withholds.”
“There's too much blank sky where a tree once stood.”
Book club!
“‘Home is about the earth. Whether the earth open up to you.’”
“One day I’ll tell you the whole story, he said.”
“There’s too much blank sky where a tree once stood. All wrong. The noose tightens.”
“‘There’s so many…So many of us,’ he says. ‘Hitting. The wrong keys. Wandering against. The song.’”
“‘Home is about the earth. Whether the earth open up to you.’”
“One day I’ll tell you the whole story, he said.”
“There’s too much blank sky where a tree once stood. All wrong. The noose tightens.”
“‘There’s so many…So many of us,’ he says. ‘Hitting. The wrong keys. Wandering against. The song.’”
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
It's been a long time since I've read a book as beautifully written as this one. The characters, the setting, and the history all form one beautiful story. This book almost brought me to tears.
A nicely lyrical exploration of the many in-between spaces of contemporary America: mixed identities, geographic spread, temporal and psychological distance. Written from the perspectives of three characters and set in a fictional Mississippi town, it has a dash of As I Lay Dying. Strains to infuse its characters with mystical insight - visions of ghosts, talking to animals - to the point of abstraction, which as a reader I felt diverts focus from the otherwise realistically painted pain of its central characters. I would recommend this book simply because I think Jesmyn Ward can evoke the modern American landscape like few other writers can at the moment.
challenging
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes