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Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston

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katharina90's review against another edition

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challenging reflective slow-paced

2.0

Basically a collection of stories from Hurston's life. I think her love for storytelling shines through, but it's emotionally detached and anything but a raw, vulnerable memoir. 

From what I've read, the truthfulness of her memoir has also been questioned. Reading this book definitely didn't give me a sense of who Hurston really was.

Some of the views she expressed seemed odd to me or were outright contradictory.
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eve81's review against another edition

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reflective slow-paced

5.0

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mali33102's review against another edition

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funny informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

I have never been a huge fan of memoirs, but since I had to read this for class, it was interesting for what it was. It was a culmination of who Zora Neale Hurston was as a person, and I found it fascinating that she decided to structure her memoir by topic rather than by a linear timeline. Having read a couple of her books as well as a few of her short stories, it was a nice end to a semester-long study of her and her work.
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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense

4.0

Hurston's writing style is outstanding: she effortlessly interweaves tragic stories of racism with witty anecdotes that are embellished by her overwhelmingly lovable spirit. She doesn't cater to comforting her abusers, but makes her own personal choice to insert joy into her autobiography; an interesting choice that she quite clearly revels in, which is simply delightful. The book's content is perfectly balanced, the writing is excellent: truly a fantastic autobiography.
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