A review by cseibs
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman

4.0

This book was frustrating, in large part because the author was so frustrated, so I can't actually consider that a bad quality. It was a book that made me deeply uncomfortable but I needed it too, I needed to feel the author's sense of being unsettled and lost. I hate to day it is an "important" book because that itself feels trite but it's the kind of book I want to press into the hands of everyone I know because I think they all must read it or else miss out on something essential.