Reading Between Covers discussion

I recently started reading this book I won on another site. It sounds like it will be really good. I am only about 50 pages in and it seems like a book where you want/have to read every word.

The story is vivid with "factual fiction". The reviews so far have been very good.

interesting! I added it to my To-Reads!!! Thanks! Let us know what you think?

The book is broken up into 4 parts.

Part 1
We meet the main characters, Graylon and his grandmother, his parents and "perfect" brother, Gordon. Graylon has a special relationship with his grandmother, Makeda/Mattie. While in elementary/Middle school, Gray visits her almost everyday. By the time he reaches HS, his family has moved further away from Mattie so he sees her only on Thursdays. They talk and she tells stories. She is blind from birth but dreams in color of her past life or lives. She tells Gray, who has decided he wants to be a writer, all about her colorful dreams of being one of the Dogon people of West Africa. Gray finds her stories very interesting and starts to research the places and things she mentions.

Part 2 - Graylon goes to college.

Part 2 is historical/fact. A professor from the University of Ghana, after telling the black senior class that "we (blacks) have no insides", eventually gives a lecture about the Queen of Sheba (actually the Queen of Axum), King Solomon,and their son Menelik. He has a little debate with a student regarding the Council of Nicea and how Jesus became a deity. A lot of education in that Part.

Graylon begins to connect the dots of his grandmothers dreams with these newly learned facts.

Part 3:

Is mostly about Gray's love for a Haitian woman from his university. How much he loves her for what's inside. He also gets a new story from his grandmother.

You like it so far? How long is the book?

Ebony, the book is very good. Gray is now in Mali in part 4 and he is learning "who" he is. He even called the woman he loved from Timbuktu to answer a question she asked him that he refused to answer because he was hurt and embarrassed by the answer. There is hope for him, lol.

The book is about 315 pages long. I am at 249 but I just realized just how slow I can read sometimes lol.

I am all done. Gray did open up to Jeanne and told the whole sad story of what happened to his brother, while at the funeral of his Aunt. Fast forward to "present time": Gray finds that he has acquired some of fathers traits that he is trying to squelch; he and Jeanne has had a full life complete with child & grandchild.

I enjoyed more the historical information in the book more so than the actual story, I found Gray to introverted and depressing almost. But he always lit up when speaking with his Grandmother and Jeanne.