A review by flexmcnutly
Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

Like others I found this a difficult read and it took a while. It may not have been intentional (in light of the posthumous publication) but it felt to me as though the form and in places difficulty of the prose captured something about horrifying things also being in reality tedious, knotted, and neverending. It felt as though packaging the narrative in a more digestible format would have been a lie, maybe. Anyway, I’m glad I stayed with it, and I will probably read it over again to pick up on new or different things because there’s a lot I will have missed the first time round. It’s a commitment of a book.