A review by ktrain3900
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

I'm not sure how to write a review for this book. I am stunned and speechless. As a white woman this book made me frequently uncomfortable. If you are like me, read it anyway. I loved the format, the heavy weaving in of quotations and of art, both public and personal. It impels engagement, inspiration, journeys down rabbit holes and into the un- and under-known. I'm left wonderfully drained, disrupted, with a blurred vision I will only be able to clear to a degree, and in degrees. As I should be. The ordinary is extraordinary, and the extraordinary can be ordinary, and and and....