lukeprog 's review for:

Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley

4.0

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4.5 stars. The first 60% of this book, focused on Kunte Kinte, was 5 stars: gripping, interesting, and full of rich detail. The rest of the book is 4 stars: there are more and larger jumps forward in time, making the narrative less immersive, and I found it overall a bit less interesting, though still solid.

This book was originally incorrectly marketed as nonfiction. It also plagiarized some other works, and contains some historical inaccuracies. Those facts didn't affect my experience of reading it much.