Okay I'm on a roll. I started this blog last year, and have only reviewed three books, and having read about a hundred in that time, I have a lot of catching up to do.
This book was written about 10 years ago, and was rereleased after the success of Book of Negroes. I liked this book as much as the previous, although it was very different.
It is about a thirtiesh man who is of mixed race parentage, and about his search for his ancestry, going back 5 generations. His current life is nicely interspersed with stories describing the lives of his forefathers; these interlock seamlessly to let the novel flow and making it very readable. Again, I found myself reading continually so to find out what would happen next. The only thing I didn't find credible, was the detail in which his characters talked about their sexual encounters in their journals. I just have a hard time believing that men do that in writing, espectially back in the times that this was alleged to have happened.
When I finished the book, I was sorry it had come to an end and found myself missing the characters, and wondering what happened to them after the book ended. All in all, a great book, I recommend it highly.
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