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A review by e_flah
Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron
4.0
C/W:rape of a child (off-page), rape, racial violence, death of a loved one
I am not normally a book crier but Daughters of Jubilation got me quite a few times. Evvie was an incredibly compelling main character. I really liked that she wasn't perfect -- she could be impatient and had a temper -- but also was constantly trying to best support the people that she cared about. The addition of magic to the story was a powerful tool to look at white privilege and the constant threat of racial violence that Black people in America have been facing since the country's founding. Evvie's jubilation forces her to make tough decisions about how she perceives power and justice, which certainly sparked a lot of personal introspection around those topics for me.
I am not normally a book crier but Daughters of Jubilation got me quite a few times. Evvie was an incredibly compelling main character. I really liked that she wasn't perfect -- she could be impatient and had a temper -- but also was constantly trying to best support the people that she cared about. The addition of magic to the story was a powerful tool to look at white privilege and the constant threat of racial violence that Black people in America have been facing since the country's founding. Evvie's jubilation forces her to make tough decisions about how she perceives power and justice, which certainly sparked a lot of personal introspection around those topics for me.