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angieoverbooked's review against another edition
4.0
This is very much a “report” of Senna’s parental relationships and what she learned about her family history while writing this book. It’s not a particularly vulnerable or emotional memoir but provides a great amount of insight into Senna’s view of her identity and the themes and plots that show up in her fiction work.
annexelizabeth's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
fusskins's review against another edition
I'm not sure what I think of "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" as a book. I'm not even sure it is a book. It's more of a loosely woven tapestry of thoughts, recollections, feelings, musings and theories. Which is fine by me because this is a truly disturbing, interesting, beautiful, ugly American family saga. The likes of which is written about more often than it is examined. Senna does a good job of showing the futility of applying sociological analysis to real-life situations. When I went to see her speak about this book, she told a story of how a reader asked her how she could write such a negative portrayal of a black man. Her response was something along the lines of this is no 'black man." This is my father. This is what really happened. That very powerful, painful truth is what made kept me riveted throughout the book. Definitely worth reading. And discussing.
axmed's review against another edition
challenging
funny
informative
reflective
4.0
So there were at least two versions of her: Nana, the small, silent woman in a housedress who shuffled around the house, cleaning and caring for children, saying her prayers and bothering no one—and Anna, the one who emerged in fragments of a story, an ambitious and educated black woman, who had been a bon vivant of the Louisiana jazz world of the thirties and forties and who had left all she knew in the South at some point and never looked back.
[something that the writer kept on saying was how US Americans are obsessed with race and she kept saying the same about her dad as well....this was really dissapointing as I'd expect the writer to know that this is a straight up right wing talking point]
[something that the writer kept on saying was how US Americans are obsessed with race and she kept saying the same about her dad as well....this was really dissapointing as I'd expect the writer to know that this is a straight up right wing talking point]