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Everyone should read this book. Beautiful.
This book was surprisingly moving. The aim, tell the tale of three individuals who never met nor had much in common outside their point of origin (the south) and their destination (the North) seem to me a task that would fall hopelessly short. It did not. The book does drag. The middle especially seems to get lost in details. Three stories do a good job of relating the wide range of experiences, poor, middle class and upper class educated African-Americans went through during the migration. And
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Dec 30, 2020
Sarah
marked it as to-read
Oct 12, 2019
Molly Stawarz
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Sep 13, 2016
Martha Davenport
marked it as to-read
