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This book is brilliant. I haven’t read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and am about to listen to it, while I’m reading this. But I linda love that in getting this perspective first. It’s so good.

I’ve never read another book like this- it sheds light on life in the south post-civil war: freed slaves with very little options, entitlement among southern landowners, confederate soldiers returned home with no prospects and no compassion for freed slaves. It’s gut wrenching and illuminating. I feel stupid to be so shook by some of the reality depicted here. Racism is so ugly, and such a part of our fabric.