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thereadingcountess 's review for:
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
by Alex Haley
I've wanted to read this one since I was a girl and watched the mini-series on television night by night with my family. Feet tucked up in my nightgown with still-wet hair ready to fall into bed immediately afterwards, I was swept into the story immediately. I listened to the 30 hour tome instead.
I've sat on a review for weeks simply because there really aren't words adequate to describe the audacity of enslavement, the beauty of familial ties that can be traced back to the origins of a family far, far ago thanks to oral tradition, or of the simple fact that if we don't know from where we come, how will we ever know where we are headed?
I would read/listen to this one again. I want to rewatch the series. This is a story for everyone.
*William Wallis is supposedly a distant relative of my family's according to my grandfather who did his own extensive research into our familial history when he retired.
I've sat on a review for weeks simply because there really aren't words adequate to describe the audacity of enslavement, the beauty of familial ties that can be traced back to the origins of a family far, far ago thanks to oral tradition, or of the simple fact that if we don't know from where we come, how will we ever know where we are headed?
I would read/listen to this one again. I want to rewatch the series. This is a story for everyone.
*William Wallis is supposedly a distant relative of my family's according to my grandfather who did his own extensive research into our familial history when he retired.