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poseykp 's review for:
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
An excellent and comprehensive tome of a Southern family. In particular, I liked the way Jeffers depicted the interactions within families! It felt very true and I really loved the characters. Even the more complicated ones. The summer visits back home reminded me of my own summers visiting my mother's family.
But I don't think I would necessarily call this an enjoyable read: there are a solid 150 pages in the middle of the book that are brutal. I was thinking that this was trauma porn as I was reading it, but I have revised that opinion. All of the victims of tragedies/abuse/rape were brought to life on the page and had rich lives beyond those incidents. There is A LOT happening, but I appreciated how Jeffers treated her characters so lovingly on the page.
But I don't think I would necessarily call this an enjoyable read: there are a solid 150 pages in the middle of the book that are brutal. I was thinking that this was trauma porn as I was reading it, but I have revised that opinion. All of the victims of tragedies/abuse/rape were brought to life on the page and had rich lives beyond those incidents. There is A LOT happening, but I appreciated how Jeffers treated her characters so lovingly on the page.