lezreadalot 's review for:

Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley

5.0

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Deep in his heart, he knew he would never see his home again, and he could feel something precious and irretrievable dying inside of him forever. But hope remained alive.

I don't want to talk about it. I don't think I can talk about it. I didn't love every inch of this book but the parts of it I did love and the parts of it that were really well-observed and well-written will stick with me for a long time. I have a crying headache lol.

I do have to say, I think the notion of questioning how pinpoint accurate the research that Haley did into his family and history... it's completely missing the point. Who cares? This is about ancestral memory, the atrocity of slavery, the strength of family and the resilience of human beings. Anyway, listened to the audiobook as read by Avery Brooks and it was great. I gotta go take an aspirin.
 

“Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. 
“Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.”