A review by jaclyncrupi
White Tears by Hari Kunzru

3.0

This wasn't at all what I thought it was going to be and I spent a section of this book completely confused about what was going on. It becomes a ghost story and that's when the magic of it kicks in. In many ways this is the book Zadie Smith was trying to write with Swing Time. At its heart this book is about the theft of black music and black lives. There's lots of details about the blues and these were mostly lost on me but the message of the book resonated deeply.