A review by daylightgate
Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo

4.0

I don’t think this is Evaristo’s best written novel, but it’s clever in what it does and how malleable the perception of it can be. It’s occasionally quite intense when read line by line, but it turns into a very effective satire at a distance. I can’t think of many books that accomplish that.

I see that this gets a lot of white reader’s hackles up, but there has to be an element of self-reflection as to why that is without just taking a knee-jerk reaction as one you’ve got to stick by because a book has made you uncomfortable.