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A review by neiljung78
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
adventurous
emotional
funny
sad
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I felt a bit in the weeds with this for some of the middle but it started great & the end is incredibly moving. But man - it needed a better editor. I don’t mean to be shorter, I mean stuff like the same simile or even sentence occurring more than once. Even so there’s great stuff in it.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism
The book is set and about slavery and is unflinching about the realities of that, both in terms of what white people did and said.