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A review by debyc
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
5.0
I remember buying this book almost 20 years ago when I was in high school, trying to find a story that my father would approve of me reading (Manga and teen romance was all trashing my brain... and still does to this day lol). I could never get into it, but my dad would read bits of it and tell me how impressed he was with McCullers for writing such a deep book in her early 20s. This was one of three books I kept of his, and the first of the three that I've finally read.
But maybe that makes my star rating a bit biased. I knew I wanted to love this book. What really got me though was that this book was written... 83ish years ago, before the end of WW2-- and yet, so much of it is still relevant today. Not just the main theme of loneliness and isolation, but of social oppression and racial injustice. We have come so far as a nation, and yet we haven't.
But maybe that makes my star rating a bit biased. I knew I wanted to love this book. What really got me though was that this book was written... 83ish years ago, before the end of WW2-- and yet, so much of it is still relevant today. Not just the main theme of loneliness and isolation, but of social oppression and racial injustice. We have come so far as a nation, and yet we haven't.