An easy read. A complicated story written simply and beautifully. 3 women, all from the same family but from different times. All being confronted with racism, sadly in the same way, in 3 different centuries. That says a lot about our society and how far we haven't come.
This was my first book by Erin Bartels. The writing isn't anything new or ground breaking and the same formula was used for each of the 3 stories. Naive white woman meets and falls in love with black man who shows her how the world really is, something bad happens and the couple is torn apart. Except with the most current story, that girl finally figures things out. And sadly, it's probably not far from what would really happens.
I do enjoy a nicely wrapped up happy ending and this surely provided that except one thing made me mad. When we finally find out how Mary dies, I was so angry that there was to be no justice. That Mary never shared with her husband how evil their son was before she died. And then to realize that son was the father of Nora's dad, and passed his hatred of black men being in the family down to him and then that is what causes him to be so awful to Nora. Ugh, the injustice, in the fiction world I really wanted Nora's dad to find out what his father was really all about.
But really a delightful read and I thank Bookish first and the publisher for my copy.
This was my first book by Erin Bartels. The writing isn't anything new or ground breaking and the same formula was used for each of the 3 stories. Naive white woman meets and falls in love with black man who shows her how the world really is, something bad happens and the couple is torn apart. Except with the most current story, that girl finally figures things out. And sadly, it's probably not far from what would really happens.
I do enjoy a nicely wrapped up happy ending and this surely provided that except one thing made me mad. When we finally find out how Mary dies, I was so angry that there was to be no justice. That Mary never shared with her husband how evil their son was before she died. And then to realize that son was the father of Nora's dad, and passed his hatred of black men being in the family down to him and then that is what causes him to be so awful to Nora. Ugh, the injustice, in the fiction world I really wanted Nora's dad to find out what his father was really all about.
But really a delightful read and I thank Bookish first and the publisher for my copy.