***Spoiler Alert: if you have not yet read Kin, please kindly come back to this review after finishing! Thank ya!*** Rock-A-Bye Baby What the heck happened? It is both a simple and a complex question to ask. The inquiry implies something expected, tangible even…and being met with the opposite. It is this question that stoodContinue reading “Humbled Cadillacs: A Book Review – “Kin” by Tayari Jones”
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Get Here If You Can: A Book Review – “Zeal” by Morgan Jerkins
Zeal /zēl/ – powerful fervor in/whilst aiming to achieve (a mostly common) goal. Jerkins writes as if she’s stood in the historical bowels of Henry Louis Gates’ “Finding Your Roots”; had a conversation with the roaming ancestors guarding precious truths. Zeal is a call and response between the choir and congregation – the elders spreadContinue reading “Get Here If You Can: A Book Review – “Zeal” by Morgan Jerkins”
Built; Not Bred: A Book Review – “Carolina Built” by Kianna Alexander
Carolina Built is set in the post Civil War wetlands of North Carolina. Most from ’round this way (up and down the southern east coast) have ventured there; many have roots there. Though the official genre is historical fiction, it is my opinion that it reads as non-fiction, factual, true…as in the words of RichardContinue reading “Built; Not Bred: A Book Review – “Carolina Built” by Kianna Alexander”
