Review: Well-written tale
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 19, 2013
This was a well written tale set to the historical background of the calamities of slavery. It's a terrible piece of American history and this author does an excellent job of capturing the horrors. The story includes not only inherent racism that is the basis of slavery, but the sexual discrimination and abuse suffered by slave women of that error. Imagining the plight of the protagonist half white, half black slave girl in this story is something that is extremely uncomfortable. I think it needs to be, because the only way to ensure a future free of racism is to reflect on outcome of society's acceptance of bigotry. This book has some graphic language and descriptions that I would not suggest as suitable for a non-adult audience. So long as you are ok dealing with certain graphic elements of this novel, I would recommend it as a good read set in a terrible time in our history.