Status Updates From Tar Baby (Chr.Bourgois) (Fr...

This has been such a crazy book, and such a realistic book. The characters have so much detail and life to them it's hard to think that they're just characters and not a person with a life and a background and friends and enemies. Everyone is so 3-dimensional it's insane. Lots of run on sentences though

“He looked at her face in the mirror and was reminded of days at sea when water looked like sky. She surveyed his body and thought of oranges, playing jacks, and casks of green wine. He was still life, babies, cut glass, indigo, hand spears, dew, cadmium yellow, Hansa red, moss green and the recollection of a tree that wanted to dance with her."

oh my GOD chapters 7 and 8 were GORGEOUS!! completely breathtaking!!!

i am so confused i don’t know who anyone is 🥀

Definitely a writing style im not used to and i sometimes have to re-read to fully grasp it but overall im devouring this book

I'm getting tired of the book tbh

“It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end. Work? At what? Marriage? Work and marriage? Where? Who?”

philly AND philippines mentioned. fuck this book is good