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damn another plot twist

this is a type of sisterhood I had no idea existed

aaaaaaaaand the trifleness continues

damn I didn’t know how twisted pastor families could be

I cant this book will have many smh moments

this book will have me shaking my head constantly…I can already tell

smh at Virginia being an example for prohibitions against interracial marriages

“While the Nazis praised ‘the American commitment to legislating racial purity,’ they could not abide ‘the unforgiving hardness’ under which ‘an American man or woman who has even a drop of Negro blood in their veins counted as blacks’…’the one drop rule was too harsh for the Nazis.’”

I think Soot and the author are the same person?

“we in the developed world are like homeowners who inherited a house on a piece of land that is beautiful on the outside, but whose soil is unstable loam and rock, heaving and contracting over generations, cracks patched but the deeper ruptures waved away for decades, centuries even…We are the heirs to whatever is right or wrong with it.” pg 16

“caste makes distinctions where God has made none” pg 24

the amount of trauma in one character is crazy

i dont really see a way out for these girls…

“Even in the wickedest of times, you got to find some enjoyment. Or you ain’t gon’ survive.” -Interview with Jupiter “Sticker” Woodberry, translated from the Gullah

what if rocky comes to earth

Rocky nooooo

lots of science oomph

some diagrams would make this book easier to follow