wyldereads 's review for:

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

4.75

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Madness is such an informative read, Hylton did an amazing job summarizing over 100 years of data and events into this book. Naturally, any book that leaves me with a new understanding of the world is slated for a 5. I reduced to a 4.75 because, at times, I felt like the content of a chapter was scattered. There is so much content to deliver it feels like Hylton went from one subject to a next without clear transitions.