A review by gina_hesketh
The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley

5.0

This one will stay with me a long time. As a white person, I will never comprehend what it's like to be black in America. This book, however, gives more insight than some may be comfortable with. The narrator's use of personal experience, historical study and storytelling provides a very powerful and emotional window into how deeply the scars of slavery and racism cut. Some find the history 'lessons' dull but I found them necessary to round out the story. Every event has an impact, large or small, and the story would have been weakened without the full historical context.