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ronanmcd 's review for:
Harlem Shuffle
by Colson Whitehead
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I loved this. It's not a story about a character. Carney as a character is a device to tell about a place. It's about a city within a city, a world within a world. It's the story of a time, a dawning when race should have been been disappearing as an issue but instead we are shown the ugly truth; nothing changed. In the words of the character it's, "a map of the black nation inside the white world, with its own constitution."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Murder