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I kept thinking of this poem while reading...
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
[Harlem by Langston Hughes]
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
[Harlem by Langston Hughes]
This was a beautifully written, emotional book looking at one family's struggles. Lydia is the most loved child and sister in a mixed race family in the 1970's. She struggles to please everyone as they struggle to please her. The book begins with Lydia's death.
The story weaves back and forth between their family life before Marilyn and James married through the days after Lydia's death. The family dynamic and struggles living as a mixed family are presented. The family's grief is palpable follo ...more
The story weaves back and forth between their family life before Marilyn and James married through the days after Lydia's death. The family dynamic and struggles living as a mixed family are presented. The family's grief is palpable follo ...more
Excellently debut book by a woman who has become one of my favorite authors. It is set up like a literary thriller but it become so, so much more than a simple who-done-it. It will grip you from the first page until the last
Nov 26, 2017
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