A quest for justice is this mother’s journey. She is also a midwife, which I’d love to be in my next life. This story is quite beautiful, even though it is bittersweet. The writing itself is absolutely lyrical, it makes me want to get it on audio to listen to. Slavery has ended, as the story unfolds it’s affects and memory linger so strongly, it’s hard to take in. As a rule it’s horrific to read anyway, it’s soul shattering. How awful the human can be. Because of what color you were born. Makes me physically sick. This story is a portrait of all those things and more. Mariah the mother loses her only son, and searches to find the answers to his murder. The story makes you think and ponder about today as well. So many mothers losing their sons…..This book is very thought-provoking. I have not read many stories detailing how slaves integrated into society and what that looked like immediately after the Civil War. Reading this has made me want to do a lot more research on this subject. Redemption. Did anyone really get it.
Pick up this book you won’t be sorry.
One of my happy finds in my 20 books of Summer.
I started this four different times. I just couldn’t focus. This doesn’t mean the book isn’t good. It means it isn’t for me right now. As a rule I love reading about Paris and have several books fiction and nonfiction. So for now I bailed. I’ll pick it up another time. Maybe in the winter, when snowed in.
This book was generously given to me by the author. I wanted to read it first before passing it on to the kids I mentor so I could decide where it would do the most good.
I really enjoyed this read, it reminded me a little of Ellen Hopkins and a little bit of Go Ask Alice. The truth told by the character in her struggle with alcohol is a needed dialog. This is done exceedingly well. The book is easy to read, and would be for any teen as well.
I recommend this as a good discussion book, create some dialog. On a side note I remembered girls at my school drinking throughout the day like some of the kids in this story, 30 plus years later I wonder if they beat the addiction.
Talk openly with kids, you’d be surprised at what they see on a daily basis.
So three more books down, really two with one on hold. Currently I am enjoying Anna Karenina and will be picking up my bookclub book soon as well as needing to have my 20 Books of Summer done.
OFF TO READ!
PEACE.
