Kat’s Reviews > Roots: The Saga of an American Family > Status Update

I took a break over the weekend but I’m back reading this classic. I’m so sick of Chicken George. This grandson of Kunta getting in my last nerve! Ughhhh 😩

The trama hits at chapter 84. 😭😩

I still have a bit of trepidation because I don’t foresee this ending happily ever after, but so far it’s looks like Kunte caught a break after loosing his foot. I mean it’s not exactly good but it could definitely be worse.

Loving this father/ daughter dynamics

The internal monologue of Kunta’s relentless plotting to escape back to Africa while silently judging the other enslaved Black people for eating swine and obeying the toubob makes me want to root for him, but knowing the history of America I know his rebellious thoughts and actions are futile.

Is this the first book to say “Toubab”?

Here we go! Lawd, this intimidates me!