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jjeepa04 's review for:
The Book of Lost Friends
by Lisa Wingate
4 1/2 stars
If the ending hadn't been rushed, this would have been a 5 star read. A fantastically plotted, character driven journey into the Reconstruction period and the attempts of formally enslaved people to reconcile with their families...all centered about the life of Hannie in the 1870s and Benny in the 1980s (BTW, I'm no fan of parallel timelines at this point in my reading life...it's been ton SO MUCH, TOO MUCH in the past many years...however, it really works in this book. Good job, Lisa Wingate in giving us a well-executed structure that strengthens the story).
We know that enslaved families were forcibly torn about and sold away from each other...and that enslaved women were often used/raped as breeding tools to produce more enslaved people for slave owners. What hasn't received enough attention is the resilience of the surviving enslaved peoples and their attempts to find their loved ones after the Emancipation Declaration became the law of the land throughout the entire US after the Civil War ended. I didn't know much about The Book of Lost Friends before reading this, and I'm grateful for learning more about how it functioned. Wingate made a wonderful choice of weaving real excerpts from TBOLF throughout her story.
Highly recommend this inspiring story!
If the ending hadn't been rushed, this would have been a 5 star read. A fantastically plotted, character driven journey into the Reconstruction period and the attempts of formally enslaved people to reconcile with their families...all centered about the life of Hannie in the 1870s and Benny in the 1980s (BTW, I'm no fan of parallel timelines at this point in my reading life...it's been ton SO MUCH, TOO MUCH in the past many years...however, it really works in this book. Good job, Lisa Wingate in giving us a well-executed structure that strengthens the story).
We know that enslaved families were forcibly torn about and sold away from each other...and that enslaved women were often used/raped as breeding tools to produce more enslaved people for slave owners. What hasn't received enough attention is the resilience of the surviving enslaved peoples and their attempts to find their loved ones after the Emancipation Declaration became the law of the land throughout the entire US after the Civil War ended. I didn't know much about The Book of Lost Friends before reading this, and I'm grateful for learning more about how it functioned. Wingate made a wonderful choice of weaving real excerpts from TBOLF throughout her story.
Highly recommend this inspiring story!