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A review by lizaroo71
The Gone Dead by Chanelle Benz
3.0
Billie James return to the Mississippi Delta to claim the home her grandfather left for her. She hasn't return home since she left the Delta with her mother following her father's death when Billie was five.
Now an accomplished professional, she is faced with the historical trauma of the racial divide in the South. Billie is bi-racial and is beginning to gain a better understanding of her mother and father's struggles as a couple and the ultimate demise of their marriage.
There is a lot of down time in this book. It isn't a long book, so this is problematic. Still, I liked that the chapters are told from different characters' POV. This moved the text along nicely. I liked the final third of the book better than the beginning as not much happens until we get about a hundred pages into the story.
Although this is set in the Mississippi Delta, the only real indication of the setting is the racial prejudice presented in the story. I was hoping for more details of the landscape.
Now an accomplished professional, she is faced with the historical trauma of the racial divide in the South. Billie is bi-racial and is beginning to gain a better understanding of her mother and father's struggles as a couple and the ultimate demise of their marriage.
There is a lot of down time in this book. It isn't a long book, so this is problematic. Still, I liked that the chapters are told from different characters' POV. This moved the text along nicely. I liked the final third of the book better than the beginning as not much happens until we get about a hundred pages into the story.
Although this is set in the Mississippi Delta, the only real indication of the setting is the racial prejudice presented in the story. I was hoping for more details of the landscape.