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Coming
Coming | Daniel Black
4 posts | 4 read | 4 to read
Lyrical, poetic and hypnotizing, the Coming tells the story of a people's capture and sojourn from their homeland across the Middle Passage
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Coming | Daniel Black
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A devastating yet lyrical telling of a capture and journey through the Middle Passage. A #BlackHistoryMonth pick.

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"The human heart has limitations, we discovered, which we reached long before our journey was over."

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An MPL librarian pick for best book she read this year! A poetic story detailing a group's horrific journey through the Middle Passage.

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DrBird
Coming | Daniel Black
Mehso-so

This is an eloquent book that suffers from the problem that most books in 1st person plural suffer: vague plot. Worse: why generalize about Africans when that's exactly what slavery accomplished? As part of a series of books on the slave trade this book would be wonderful. Alone it's underwhelming.

DrBird When I say this book "generalizes" I should say that it's unclear whether the novel NEEDS to generalize. As the collective "we" thins out, names and faces become distinct but only briefly. Otherwise traditions & identity swirl ogether resulting in a voice of "Africans" not "individuals from Africa". 8y
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