simplyme 's review for:

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

4.75

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

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I really loved this book. You can tell the author has a lot of passion for this topic. It certainly isn't a pick me up type of book but the history of this place is fascinating and often sad. I really enjoyed hearing stories from people who were there and I think the author did an excellent job collecting and organizing sources and walking us through the history. I think my only critique of this book is that in parts of the book I lost track of where in time we were. I think this was only an issue because I listened to the audiobook so I couldn't quickly and easily flip back to find what year we were in.