“What they call you is one thing, what you answer to is something else.”

Dear Griffiths,

Why don’t you come and directly rip my heart from my chest, since that is what you were clearly trying to do here?

Sincerely,
Kezia Duah

In great historical moments, we tend to get lost in the big-picture details and tend to not think much about the individual lives that lived through these moments. Griffiths has done a great job of illustrating this in the story and bringing up topics that can spark interesting conversations. I like that Griffiths still gave us context about what part of history certain moments in the books were so we understand the general atmosphere while still focusing on the lives of the characters.

I love that she really wanted us to get to know each and every character which she does by giving us snippets of their past. I liked this because it made you for a second actually try to understand nature, even the ones you really don’t like…….or hate with your guts. I thought all the characters were phenomenally complex and I loved that.

I hated the ending but in a good way. It’s a reminder that life is not always a happy ending and most black people during this time reflect this.