A review by eric_roling
The Confession of Copeland Cane by Keenan Norris

2.0

I couldn't connect with this story - possibly it was due to a combination of the elevated satire (not my cup of tea) combined with the dialect in which Cope speaks, which pulled me out of the story with the repeated "they"s for "theirs", etc. The story itself is compelling, another tale of the headwinds and obstacles that are placed in the way of a Black boy trying to grow up in and around Oakland, CA. There is much to think about, and Cope oddly wavers between naive and profound, likely an artifact of the author wanting to say important things while ensure that Cope is a victim of his circumstances rather than actively bringing them about. There is much to think about, but other books have done this better.