It is hard for me to really kind of rate this book. I thought the story and the characters interesting but it was just too hard to follow the book and to know who was actually telling the story at too many times. This is the first book I have read by Toni Morrison so I am not sure it this is just her style or if it was a style she adopted for this book. The disconnectedness of the story did feed into it somewhat in that the characters themselves were basically disconnected as well, so maybe the style was done with this purpose in mind. Whatever the reason, I think it took away from the story.
I do have to say that the author does a very good job of expressing the emotions of the characters without having to come out and say them in the story also. I haven't thought this through but if that was the reason for the disconnected storyline then, okay I have to give her credit then. Anyway, overall I would say I enjoyed the book, like I said earlier, interesting characters and story.
It is on something like 40 people's WL still so I will be mailing it off at some point but in no real hurry right now though.
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