It’s time for my BOTM BuddyRead! I love reading with these fellow readers, they bring so much more to the enjoyment of the book. Weekly Sunday afternoon discussion time ads to this and shows how we all view things differently, can agree to disagree, be respectful and learn from one another and really make you think, a wonderful exercise of your mind.
“The novel is built around an arduous car trip: A black woman and her two children drive to a prison to pick up their white father. Ward cleverly uses that itinerant structure to move this family across the land while keeping them pressed together, hot and irritated. As soon as they leave the relative safety of their backwoods farm, the snares and temptations of the outside world crowd in, threatening to derail their trip or cast them into some fresh ordeal …. The plight of this one family is now tied to intersecting crimes and failings that stretch over decades. Looking out to the yard, Jojo thinks, ‘The branches are full. They are full with ghosts, two or three, all the way up to the top, to the feathered leaves.’ Such is the tree of liberty in this haunted nation.”
—Washington Post
I’m excited to start this!!
Peace.
