“But he did think about the ways in which his body wasn’t his own and how that condition showed up uniquely for everyone whose personhood wasn’t just disputed but denied. Swirling beneath him were the ways in which not having lawful claim to yourself diminished you, yes, but in another way, condemned those who invented the disconnection.”
This novel is stunning. Telling the love story of Isaiah and Samuel, two enslaved young men who fall in love on a Deep South plantation. Told through various eyes of people on the plantation, this story is hopeful but heartbreaking. An ambitious debut that will cement Robert Jones Jr.’s spot as one of the formative writers of his generation, this book was unlike anything I’ve read. Thank you @librofm for the ACL! This book will stay with me for a long time — so long that I picked up the hard copy to revisit and annotate. I will likely update this brief review upon re-reading.
I could explain ad nauseam why this book is stunning, why it’s emotive, why it’s likely going to win numerous literary awards, but the overwhelming feeling I had while reading was that it needs to be included in every reading list. It’s a must read that shares a perspective largely absent from literature. So, bottom line: read it
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