The Atlas of Reds and Blues | 
...in which she resolves to not let it bother her, the loneliness, the responsibility, the nagging inner critic who uses a bullhorn to broadcast into her inner ear she cannot manage everything, she cannot manage anything, that it is all her own doing, her undoing that is. Her hands begin to tremble...
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 This book is beautifully written - I can tell the author is a poet. The timeline bounces back and forth from her lying in her driveway bleeding, to her memories of racism and reflections of how she ended up where she is. It‘s heartbreaking and unflinching.
pick@Jas16 Thank you so much for the books and this lovely postcard! I loved this book. An unnamed Indian woman is shot in her driveway. The book is her thinking about her life as she bleeds out. It is nonlinear. She is a woman who simply just wants to “be” while living in a world all too eager to inform her who she should be based on her gender and the color of her dark skin. I thought the writing was lovely. I ached for her and her children. Pick!!
My college kids are home so I can start my book while my daughter makes our favorite kale salad for dinner. 😁
so-soA Bengali- American woman has been shot during a police raid and as she bleeds in her driveway she reflects on the events that she feels may have brought her to this moment. Some of the daily racism she and her daughters are subjected to in their Atlanta suburb really rang true to me but overall I felt removed from Mother. There is a lack of emotion in the telling of what she has endured and little time is spent on the raid or her inner thoughts.
panDid not enjoy this one. The writing was really uninspired and a confusing jumble of issues and events without any coherent story. This book starts when the narrator has been shot during a police raid. She then recounts all the awful things she‘s experienced as a WOC in the south, where the people are apparently uniformly horrible. Things jump around in time and place, and different names are used for the same character. Just confusing. #hoopla
New book haul 😍
Included:
📖 The Atlas of Reds and Blues
📚 Let Me Explain You
🔖 The Incomplete Book of Running
📖 Splitsville
📚 A Novel Bookstore
🔖Where Reasons End
📖 Tragedy + Time
pickWow. This short novel packs a gut punch. An American woman with Indian heritage moves to the suburbs of Atlanta and she find her kids are treated terribly and her husband (who is white and travels often) ... well, you need to just read this one.
pickThis is a novel about racism (and sexism) in the US. Mother, an Indian American woman is sprawled on the driveway of her suburban Atlanta home surrounded by armed police. (An event based on the author's real-life experience.) In her terror and rage, she flips around in her past, trying to make sense, recalling the prejudice she experienced in school, on the job, at the grocery store and drycleaners, memories that pierce and bruise 👇
I went to the library today to drop off books. I wasn't planning to check any out, but then I spotted this on the new release shelf. Couldn't resist! The reviews I've read are glowing.
pickLaskar has crafted a beautiful novel. Written in the most lovely poetic prose she covers heavy subject matter, Racism, Stereotypes, Misogyny, Bullying and Police Brutality. This book is an emotional rollercoaster! As you watch a mother try so hard to raise her daughters and to be proud of who they are while they face unjustified harassment and bullying. It is completely heartbreaking but undoubtedly worth reading.
#bookreview #booklover
pickOh my God. This book. Was written especially for me. Read it all today, the day it was released.
The main character has been shot by police and lays bleeding in her driveway. She thinks back over her life and what may or may not have held her to this moment.
A beautifully written examination of how a lifetime of discrimination and humiliation can pile up and weigh on the heart and mind.
Run, don‘t walk.
I really want to stay home and read today.
Had it on pre-hold (pre-order but for library) and was first to get it when it released at midnight.
pickFrom beginning to end a well told tragic story; capturing emotions and actions as results of small mindedness and fear. Beautifully told.
