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Lädt ... The Gone Dead (2019)von Chanelle Benz
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I heard this as an audiobook, which may have affected my review. My main impression is that Billie acted more like a teenager than the 35 year old she was. She primarily focuses on how not having a father affected her. She had a hard time moving forward with her life, and I'm not sure I believed that a short visit back to her father's hometown is going to solve that. ( ) This novel, with a promising premise, is a disappointment. Billie, daughter of a Black poet/activist father and a white mother who meet during Freedom Summer in Mississippi, inherits her grandmother's dilapidated Delta home and moves in, putting aside her life and job in Philadelphia. Her father Cliff died under suspicious circumstances in Greendale when Billie was three, and with her mother now also gone, she becomes more curious about him. But there's very little of Billie revealed here; in fact, her dog Rufus, also inherited, is a more sympathetic character. She becomes involved with the white son of a neighbor, finds an early chapter of a memoir written by Cliff before his death, and enlists the help of an uncle, cousin, and a scholar who's writing her father's biography. But when the mystery is solved, the climactic scene is low key and lacking drama. Quote: "A Black man in the South walked around with a target on his back for every angry white man who felt life hadn't given him what he deserved." keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day, and she hasn't been back to the South since. Thirty years later, Billie returns but her father's home is unnervingly secluded: her only neighbors are the McGees, the family whose history has been entangled with hers since the days of slavery. As Billie encounters the locals, she hears a strange rumor: that she herself went missing on the day her father died. As the mystery intensifies, she finds out that this forgotten piece of her past could put her in danger. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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