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Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
3.0
dark sad tense slow-paced

I was absolutely mesmerized by Sing, Unburied, Sing — a book I widely proclaimed as the best I read that year. But i just struggled to connect to the story in Let Us Descend, as beautiful and important as the writing is. 

I’ll chalk this one up to my own error — perhaps I wasn’t in the right mindset to read something this tragic. I found myself reading the same lines and chapters trying to register what I had even read, and felt like I had to push to focus. Sometimes it felt like i was reading the rhythm of words rather than the story.

Then again, I’m recovering from a head injury so what do i know.