meganstilley 's review for:

Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley

5.0

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This book was excellent. It follows Kunta Kinte an African from Gambia. He is stolen from his country and sold in America as a slave. The story then follows his life as a slave. He has one child and once that child is sold to a different slave master the story perspective changes to her and keeps changing to the next generation as the story goes along all the way to Alex Haley himself.

Haley did year so research to trace his lineage back to Africa. He also did his research on what life was like in Gambia in the early 1700s. It is a long book but it really does not take long to read, it reads like a novel so you get wrapped up in the characters and story.

Highly recommend this to anyone and everyone.