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sewwriter 's review for:
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
by Alex Haley
Ugh. I understand the importance of this book for showing African-Americans that it is possible to trace their history back to the Africans who were taken from their native lands hundreds of years ago. I also understand you can’t plagiarize and call it family history.
There are parts of this book that are great and offer a real window into what it might have been like to live in slavery (though as slavery goes, this family was exceptionally lucky, at one point even getting sold as a family).
And then there are a hundred or more pages about cockfighting. So I’m definitely torn about this one (which was book five in my “books I’ve always wanted to read” challenge).
There are parts of this book that are great and offer a real window into what it might have been like to live in slavery (though as slavery goes, this family was exceptionally lucky, at one point even getting sold as a family).
And then there are a hundred or more pages about cockfighting. So I’m definitely torn about this one (which was book five in my “books I’ve always wanted to read” challenge).