alaiyo0685's reviews
613 reviews

I loved loved loved this book! I was wary of the term post-Blackness, because when I first read it, I assumed it meant Blackness as a thing to get "over" or "past," but *spoiler alert* that's not what it means at all! Toure is post-limitations on Blackness, post-"Black people don't do [x]," post-"not Black enough," post-"too Black." Those are things I am more than ready to get over, so I give this book a solid 5 stars. Right on, brothaman, right on.

A third novel riddled with loss and the struggle for redemption, And the Mountains Echoed takes a step back from the heartbreaking direct relationships of Hosseini's first novel, The Kite Runner, to show how the sins of an earlier generation seep through the family line. Hosseini surprises his readers with unexpected plot twists, as is his usual style, and makes us hungry for the connections between characters and events that he slowly unveils. And the Mountains Echoed is definitely a page-turner, but didn't have me as fully invested in the characters or their world as Hosseini's first novel did.