I loved this book and can see how it won the Booker Prize in 2019. My daughter compared it to Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, which I haven't read yet. It's mostly about mother/daughter relationships and the difficulty of raising children. I cried at the end because I didn't want it to end. Hattie was definitely my favorite character. It's very easy to read, although at times it was difficult with so many characters to keep up with.

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This is quite a labor or love to read.

It's intertwined women's stories that, for the most part, came together for me. There are SO MANY stories though and women that it can be a challenge to keep track. Especially the epilogue. It didn't make sense to be an epilogue to me, just a final chapter -- and I had to dig deep to recall who this person was.

The most fascinating part to me was the sentence (or lack there of) structure. Spoiler alert, there isn't a period/end stop to be found. In reading the first section/chapter I thought perhaps that was the style for that character, but no, that's the entire book.

All in all, a good read, but glad I'm done with the hefty thing and can return it to my colleague who lent it to me.

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