zoeleigh 's review for:

The Queen of Sugar Hill by ReShonda Tate

4.5

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This book will, hopefully, remind you how much times have changed, but also that the times when we wouldn't let a black woman go into the same nightclub as her castmates were not so long ago. I was struck so many times while reading this that the racism and hatred featured in this book took place 80 years ago. And while it is historical fiction, the racism is not fictional. I know people who were alive then and are alive now. This isn't ancient history, it's still relevant in so many ways. 

It also is such a poignant story; well written and makes you feel so intensely for Hattie.