Between Good Dirt and Black Cake, Good Dirt blows everything else away. Readers should be able to tell the care and detailed research that Charmaine Wilkerson put into the narrative. I enjoyed how she has a reference page with good secondary source readings at the end of the book for those interested in learning more about the Black history she is referencing.

The audiobook is great. I enjoyed the narrators voices. If you're looking for a book with a tight plot, this is not for you. The novel is very character driven and - in my mind - quite plotless. There is a bunch of POVs but I didn't mind being about to see into all of the characters' minds. Wilkerson has you feeling all of the characters emotions and angst throughout the narrative. What isn't advertised very well is this book has a lot of romance tied up in it. It is a family saga but also the romance plays a large part in the plot. The flashbacks to different ancestors were nice to help establish why and how the jar was so valuable to the Freeman family, but at first it was very jarring and almost unnecessary.