A review by maitthegreat
Cane by Jean Toomer

2.0

for whatever reason, my brain could not properly process this book as an audiobook. no matter how many time i went back over sections, i never had any idea what was happening during the prose chapters. likely that was because the stories were so dialogue heavy, so it was hard to differentiate between characters and understand the flow of the conversation without seeing it on the page.

the poetry was beautiful, the stories (from what i could understand) were violent and disturbing. i feel like that was likely the point of them, but i’m genuinely not sure.