🌊Troubled Waters 🌊

This is such a heartbreaking, beautiful book.

The story is told by 3 characters - Corrine, her grandmother Cora, and her uncle Harold. The story takes place in a few different locations -  mainly 1950’s Nashville, Mississippi, and New Orleans.  It takes a deep dive into moments that have shaped our history and those that will shape our future. It caused me to revisit moments in history that I shamefully have not thought about in a long time. There’s a lot happening in this book - grief, climate change , family dynamics, activism, racism, and more. 

It’s a heavily character driven book and the plot does seem to jump around a bit. Don’t be deterred by the many plot points, however. Stick with it. The growth we see in the characters is worth it. 

I loved the family dynamics the most. I felt the grief spilling from the pages and it was interesting the way that grief manifested in each of the characters. Corrine’s environmental activism definitely left a mark on me and I am currently going down a rabbit hole. By the end of this story, I was crying like a baby. The story feels deeply personal, especially for those of us with deep roots in this country. It is my belief that this is a story that needed to be told. I hope you check it out!

“She insisted that every story was important and the longer they waited, the more people would suppress their pain and forget the details”

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