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A review by aveincobalt
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy
3.0
This books feels like a dream. It keeps transitioning back and forth between American landscape and history as a whole and the author’s family history. It does not dwell on a single topic for long. It is fluid. Transitioning over and over again and expecting you to keep up. As soon as something grasps your interest the book has moved on never to return.
Reading this was difficult for me. It has sections I found very confusing. I assume it would make more sense if I was familiar with the landscape or history being described. There are moments when it discusses new, terrible laws without going into detail. I look at the publishing date, see Obama was still in office, and wonder what these laws were. It leaves me with more questions than answers.
Reading this was difficult for me. It has sections I found very confusing. I assume it would make more sense if I was familiar with the landscape or history being described. There are moments when it discusses new, terrible laws without going into detail. I look at the publishing date, see Obama was still in office, and wonder what these laws were. It leaves me with more questions than answers.