kaylagraceful 's review for:

Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley

4.0

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This was an excellent book and I'm glad I took the time to read it. While sometimes slow, I think the pace of the book's events only added to the understanding of what it must have been like for this family, living in a time of slavery and then intense discrimination. The time that Haley took in the first couple 100's pages of the novel to describe life in Africa for Kunta made it all the more heart wrenching when he was captured and forced to travel to America. The only thing I wish the author had done differently was spend more time telling us about his own journey to Africa to learn about his family's history.