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erinbrenner's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Babb's novel is an intimate, personal look at these events and her characters are so real, I want to look them up and see how they survived after the last page.
This should have been published in 1939 and Random House was set to do so until Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" became so popular. The world "didn't need" two books on the Dust Bowl and Depression. I call BS. They didn't want a woman upstaging a successful man. Otherwise why wait 40+ years to publish?
But go read this book and decide for yourself.
Graphic: Miscarriage and Classism
Moderate: Pregnancy
Minor: Antisemitism, Racism, Misogyny, and Death
alex2teeuw's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Above all, then, I was impressed by Babb's novel. It's not a masterpiece. But it deserves far more recognition. It needs to be published more. It needs to stand next to The Grapes of Wrath in bookshops. The Rosalind Franklin of realist literature deserves the full credit subsumed by Steinbeck.
Graphic: Medical trauma, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Violence, Classism, Grief, Racism, Xenophobia, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, and Racial slurs
mondovertigo's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Classism, Suicide, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Animal death
Minor: Racial slurs
rhymeswithshmo's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Moderate: Grief, Miscarriage, Death, and Suicide
Minor: Racial slurs
theirgracegrace's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Moderate: Cursing, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Animal death, Child death, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Pregnancy, and Vomit
This book was originally written in the 1930's and was only published recently, so approach with caution with that in mind.mitrabird2010's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Xenophobia
manarnia's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicide, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Grief, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Violence, and Xenophobia
Minor: Animal death, Blood, and Gore
jewishpadme's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Miscarriage
Moderate: Suicide and Racial slurs
klfgasaway's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Miscarriage, Suicide, and Death