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A review by terrylw
The Atlas of Reds and Blues by Devi S. Laskar
2.0
I really wanted to like this book but I didn't. I keep trying to figure out what I am missing.
The writing style of the book is very different, the characters did not have names, i.e. Mother, Middle Daughter, etc, the flashbacks to a variety of times and places; that all took getting used to but I didn't hate it. Admittedly, I did hate the references to the husband as being the "Hero".
The book opens with Mother lying in the driveway after being shot by police with assault style weapons. Why were the police even there? I understand the racial profiling throughout the book but I feel like at no point do we know why this shooting incident took place. I was waiting for something, anything to help and nothing came.
The writing style of the book is very different, the characters did not have names, i.e. Mother, Middle Daughter, etc, the flashbacks to a variety of times and places; that all took getting used to but I didn't hate it. Admittedly, I did hate the references to the husband as being the "Hero".
The book opens with Mother lying in the driveway after being shot by police with assault style weapons. Why were the police even there? I understand the racial profiling throughout the book but I feel like at no point do we know why this shooting incident took place. I was waiting for something, anything to help and nothing came.