myeshatiara's review against another edition
5.0
Favorite Quote: "...a little girl, a toddler, brushes against me...I look at the spot on my arm where she had been and I feel her heat dissipate into the air. I didn't know I had grown so cold."~Crita
Dealing with a sibling who was once a star athlete turn to drugs has got to be a hard pill to swallow and Crita has been dealt it. Along with a sick father, she doesn't know if she is coming or going but her life is at a stand still.
Reading this book brings back memories of a older generation and generational curses that I'm myself working to break. It truly hits home with the flashbacks about her childhood and her parents childhood and is written so beautifully I feel like I'm there and her grandmother's story was unbelievable and like watching a movie!
Crita's relationships with her siblings are so complex yet those of use with siblings can identify with at least one of her annoyances she gets with hers' and there are quite a few especially with Ella. However her relationship with her brother, Linc, is far more complex even than that. It is as if he has a tie to her stronger than just siblings but soul mates. She feels as if she needs to go through every aspect of life with him from childhood until adulthood but she can't do everything for him and I feel that's her biggest conflict in this book. Her lack of awareness to how much damage her brother leaves in his wake is so triggering and disappointing to see but it is some black women's reality. Definitely worth the read and as a first novel it is groundbreaking.
Dealing with a sibling who was once a star athlete turn to drugs has got to be a hard pill to swallow and Crita has been dealt it. Along with a sick father, she doesn't know if she is coming or going but her life is at a stand still.
Reading this book brings back memories of a older generation and generational curses that I'm myself working to break. It truly hits home with the flashbacks about her childhood and her parents childhood and is written so beautifully I feel like I'm there and her grandmother's story was unbelievable and like watching a movie!
Crita's relationships with her siblings are so complex yet those of use with siblings can identify with at least one of her annoyances she gets with hers' and there are quite a few especially with Ella. However her relationship with her brother, Linc, is far more complex even than that. It is as if he has a tie to her stronger than just siblings but soul mates. She feels as if she needs to go through every aspect of life with him from childhood until adulthood but she can't do everything for him and I feel that's her biggest conflict in this book. Her lack of awareness to how much damage her brother leaves in his wake is so triggering and disappointing to see but it is some black women's reality. Definitely worth the read and as a first novel it is groundbreaking.
patternmaster's review against another edition
5.0
Excellent account of a woman's journey as she learns how to love with boundaries. Note: read with tissue!
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