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A review by axmed
Love Enough by Dionne Brand
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
“You have absolutely no compassion, none. And for your information everything is political!” June was hissing.
Second, she had no intentions of enabling the police state in any way. As Emma Goldman said, as long as people were living a life they loathe to live then crime was inevitable.
He was down the street near the traffic lights when he heard his name, his boy name, called—Qualbiwanagoow! Goodhearted One!—the name they all called him until he objected to it when he turned fourteen. The sound of it now filled him with hopefulness. And the sight of Hela waving him toward her made him run back like a boy, like a good-hearted one. She had heard him, she had heard him even if he hadn’t said it. Let me stay, Hela.
She was the smart one, and he hopes to find her, his ghost one day, to do something simple with her, something airy, perhaps have a coffee. He wants to tell her of his gravitational theory and how it worked, or perhaps he simply wants to tell her he’s fine and everything is okay, he has a baby, he has a life. And astonished, she’ll say to him, “Germain! What the hell!”
Second, she had no intentions of enabling the police state in any way. As Emma Goldman said, as long as people were living a life they loathe to live then crime was inevitable.
He was down the street near the traffic lights when he heard his name, his boy name, called—Qualbiwanagoow! Goodhearted One!—the name they all called him until he objected to it when he turned fourteen. The sound of it now filled him with hopefulness. And the sight of Hela waving him toward her made him run back like a boy, like a good-hearted one. She had heard him, she had heard him even if he hadn’t said it. Let me stay, Hela.
She was the smart one, and he hopes to find her, his ghost one day, to do something simple with her, something airy, perhaps have a coffee. He wants to tell her of his gravitational theory and how it worked, or perhaps he simply wants to tell her he’s fine and everything is okay, he has a baby, he has a life. And astonished, she’ll say to him, “Germain! What the hell!”