A review by neiljung78
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride

adventurous emotional funny sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I felt a bit in the weeds with this for some of the middle but it started great & the end is incredibly moving. But man - it needed a better editor. I don’t mean to be shorter, I mean stuff like the same simile or even sentence occurring more than once. Even so there’s great stuff in it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Racial slurs

The book is set and about slavery and is unflinching about the realities of that, both in terms of what white people did and said.