A review by rickwren
Black Girl/White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates

2.0

Normally I love Joyce Carol Oates' writing, but this was one book that dragged on and on and on. I think the most annoying thing for me was her insistence on foreshadowing the violent end of the subject. It took so much of the descriptive power away from the story and when we get to the climax, I was still in Ho-Hum mode. I wouldn't recommend this book because it doesn't show anything new in race relations or add anything to our view of the turbulent 1970's. It seemed like a book that she wrote just to get some of that guilt and memory out of her mind and onto the page.