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Unfortunately, this book was incredibly underwhelming and has major issues:
1. There isn’t enough evidence from primary sources to dedicate an entire book to these mothers. To compensate, the author made a lot of assumptions and filled gaps with flowery prose. The Author’s Note admits that she struggled to find much information.
2. The author would add little blurbs about history that were wholly unrelated to the little biographical information she had about the mothers. It was incredibly distracting and contained nothing novel about Black history. Again, she had to resort to this because of the lack of evidence that exists.
3. As stated above, I felt that the prose imputed too many thoughts and feelings onto the mothers. I picked this book up to read non-fiction. If I wanted to read historical fiction, I would have turned to another book.
4. The conclusion read like the book the author actually wants to write. She crammed so many ideas in at the end, when I was just relieved this reading experience was over.
2.5 stars rounded up to 3. Do not read.
1. There isn’t enough evidence from primary sources to dedicate an entire book to these mothers. To compensate, the author made a lot of assumptions and filled gaps with flowery prose. The Author’s Note admits that she struggled to find much information.
2. The author would add little blurbs about history that were wholly unrelated to the little biographical information she had about the mothers. It was incredibly distracting and contained nothing novel about Black history. Again, she had to resort to this because of the lack of evidence that exists.
3. As stated above, I felt that the prose imputed too many thoughts and feelings onto the mothers. I picked this book up to read non-fiction. If I wanted to read historical fiction, I would have turned to another book.
4. The conclusion read like the book the author actually wants to write. She crammed so many ideas in at the end, when I was just relieved this reading experience was over.
2.5 stars rounded up to 3. Do not read.