cook_memorial_public_library's review against another edition
5.0
A 2013 staff fiction favorite recommended by Susie and Connie.
Susie's review: Oh my goodness. This was an incredible book. Wash is the name of a slave circa 1812-1830ish. He is saltwater, meaning he came over on the ocean (in his mother's womb actually) and was not born from a country born slave (meaning someone who was already enslaved in the U.S. when they were born).
His mother gives him many ways to cope with the hard hard life he is put to, using traditional African spirituality. Richardson, his owner, puts him to work that almost completely breaks him, as a breeding sire hired out to neighboring slave owners, but it is his mother's ways, and a special relationship with a slavewoman healer, Pallas, that ultimately allows him to retain his own humanity for himself. This was a beautiful book.
Check our catalog: http://encore.cooklib.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1450205__Swash%20wrinkle__Orightresult__X2?lang=eng&suite=pearl
Susie's review: Oh my goodness. This was an incredible book. Wash is the name of a slave circa 1812-1830ish. He is saltwater, meaning he came over on the ocean (in his mother's womb actually) and was not born from a country born slave (meaning someone who was already enslaved in the U.S. when they were born).
His mother gives him many ways to cope with the hard hard life he is put to, using traditional African spirituality. Richardson, his owner, puts him to work that almost completely breaks him, as a breeding sire hired out to neighboring slave owners, but it is his mother's ways, and a special relationship with a slavewoman healer, Pallas, that ultimately allows him to retain his own humanity for himself. This was a beautiful book.
Check our catalog: http://encore.cooklib.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1450205__Swash%20wrinkle__Orightresult__X2?lang=eng&suite=pearl
in2reading's review against another edition
3.0
With beautiful prose the author renders the interior lives of various slave and free characters in this novel set in the late 1700s-early 1800s Tennessee.
renee_pompeii's review against another edition
Not in the mood for Revolutionary War historical fiction, but the topic is interesting. I might revisit this.
wordnerdy's review against another edition
3.0
http://wordnerdy.blogspot.com/2013/03/2013-book-74.html
dorothysnarker's review against another edition
2.0
Between the plotless meandering and the storytelling in third person, switching between characters, this book is a hot mess.
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