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I am not finishing this book at this time. Because of some extremes in my recent past and in my everyday life, the things that I am socially anxious about are current realities, not past, imagined, or exaggerated. This book doesn’t allow for that in the first few chapters.

This book read like nonfiction. It wasn’t bad, but the style felt more like nonfiction than novel, so I read the Wikipedia article on Mary Mallon instead of finishing.

I am quitting, but not exactly because the book is bad. This book is important to the history of our national discussion of race and slavery. But it’s long. And, IMO longer than it needs to be. My reading time needs to be used in other ways.