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leasttorque 's review for:

4.0

Boys being boys in a world where the ultimate inhumanity is still extant. One boy taking a step toward humanity.

Twain described it as “a book of mine where a sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision and conscience suffers defeat". It was indeed that.

But it was truly awful to read the racist epithets and attitudes. Most of it is required to make the point. Some of it is not.

I’m waiting with bated breath to see what Percival Everett does with this in James.