McFadden as an author and I cannot wait to read something else by her. In fact I found myself looking forward to the next bit that I knew As an ARC/ER, Gathering of Waters did exactly what it needed to do, what it was meant to do and what many ARC/ER books do not. And I did appreciate the bits of mystical surrealism that accompanies this story.
I really liked the main character of the book when I finally figured out who it was for this is a generational story. But the story flows smoothly from event to event. There is a daily violence & perversity within most of the families depicted here that may be difficult for some to imagine. But in that day the black people of our Southern communities had much to fear even in their innocence.The love story is small, short & yet HUGE. The building of the characterization & subject material was not rushed so this reader had plenty of time to acclimate herself to the book, the people & the events of the story.It is a novel based on the murder of Emmett Til in Mississippi back in the 1950s, a hate crime that would most likely have turned out much differently in this day. McFadden an ER/ARC thank youThis book.this book is hauntingly lovely while the subject matter is mostly not.
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