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marciafhm 's review for:
American Spy
by Lauren Wilkinson
Is this a spy thriller? Historical novel? Anti-imperialism manifesto? Romance? Critique of the treatment of Black Americans, Black women in particular? This just tries to be too much. First personal narration in the form of a journal-to-my-sons doesn’t work. I had high hopes in the beginning but then it just wandered off. The relationships between Marie and Helene, Marie and Agatha, Marie and Thomas, Marie and her bosses are superficially explored, leaving the reader to guess at motivation. For such a smart person (as her family, friends, and colleagues repeatedly point out), Marie acts like a dummy. While reading I kept asking myself, would a mother REALLY be writing some of this stuff to her children? Some of the analogies were absurd. Given the high ratings I expected more and am just disappointed in this one