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pick⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spent 2 weeks with this novel, an ambitious multigenerational epic and a confronting story of race and privilege. Shot through with tracts on Darwinian evolution, genetics and other diversions. It feels nourished by authors like Faulkner and Melville. A cerebral and confronting book and I applaud the attempt to capture something of the nature of race and the cascading consequences of history within a complex and yet very readable 550 pages.
Redheadrambles #tob16 #tob2016 8y
Marchpane Fantastic review Trudie! Sounds like this one had a lot of layers to unpack. 8y
Redheadrambles @ Marchpane, thanks. Yeah I think it's a complex mesh of a book and I can understand people might be disappointed if they thought it would be about horses or a straight forward narrative... 8y
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Redheadrambles Oops wrong tag #tob17 #tob2017 8y
Redheadrambles Also this NY Times review is so good https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/books/review-in-ce-morgans-the-sport-of-ki... 8y
outis Great review! 8y
Suet624 I loved this book and you wrote a brilliant review. 8y
Redheadrambles @Suet624 oh thank you 😊. 8y