A review by nicoleankenmann
My Love, My Love, Or, the Peasant Girl by Rosa Guy

4.0

I came to this book after falling in love with the musical adaptation, Once on This Island, advertised broadly as a combination retelling of The Little Mermaid and Romeo and Juliet. I think the book lives up to that literary frame, and sits comfortably in the category of beautiful tragedy. My Love, My Love is a modern myth that treads the surprisingly thin line between cynicism and hope in a nation overtly fractured along racial lines. Worth reading.