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The Men We Reaped (2000)

by Jesmyn Ward(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: This book made me sad and deeply uncomfortable - the squirmy kind where you want to stop reading but can't because you feel like you have a responsibility to see the book through to the end. The least I could do was finish it, after all Jesmyn Ward has been through, though I didn't completely buy into her theories of why so many of her kin were killed or died. I do think this is an important book to read in light of all the race-related things happening in the news and I'm glad I've done so.
review 2: I read fewer straight memoirs these days, but I felt I probably needed to read this one, and I was right. It's difficult for me to imagine how Jesmyn Ward wrote this book, particularly the last 40 pages or so. Reading rarely moves me to anything close to tears, bu... moret there were a few when I turned the final page here.At the end of this terribly depressing year, this felt like a rebuttal to everything, all the nastiness in all the comment threads. A lot of people ought to read this, and even though many of those who should probably won't, others will, and if that's just a way of seeing hope where there isn't any, it's better than nothing. less

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