A review by amberpatrice
The Healing by Jonathan Odell

4.0

At first I was skeptical about this book when I saw it was written by a white man. I’m not going to lie. I grew up reading historical fiction and it’s clear that Odell thoroughly did his research and treated this book with respect. Through the eyes of Granada and how SHE interpreted things like colorism, rape, religion, even FREEDOM vs. the world that is completely turned upside down when Polly Shine enters. I found myself highlighting passage after passage in this book that talked about things that still juxtaposed with the internal struggle of an African American today. How far we’ve come to only still basically be in turmoil about the same things... gives even more weight to the fact that (like Polly said)... we are all just the blood of our ancestors. Still confused. Still remembering. Still angry.

Overall this book was a solid 4 star read if you like/can handle essentially a book about slavery. Because there are scenes that get very intense.