Reviews tagging 'Racism'

The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai

2 reviews

lampbee's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Love the way she writes mysteries maybe it makes me sound stupid but i love when things wrap up in a way you’d never guess , not every loose end is tied but the ones that are you’d never expect :) Very fun book and made me think too much about the passage of time so I’m sad now :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Rape, Suicide, and War

In Part III there’s a

detailed description of the artist colony performing a protest/demonstration wherein they use Native American stereotypes (wearing headdresses , painting their faces etc) It’s brief and thus bit is set in the mid 1920s.

jitterbugsnap's review

medium-paced

5.0

"Count it as the universe's cruelest irony that the ghosts, who alone could piece a whole story together, are uniquely unable to tell it."

I loved this book from the beginning -- I'm enamored with Makkai's style, and the structure was well chosen and well implemented. This will leave me lingering on impermanence and lost contexts for a while to come. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Racism