This is a lovely review I just discovered on Goodreads! Pamela J “got” Split and the way the story ends. She marked it “to read and re-read.” I’m psyched!
bookshelves: 21st-century, literary-bio, memoir, immigrant, u-s, non-fiction-topical, black-studies, latina-o, german, history, to-re-read, to-read
A powerful life story of the author’s efforts to learn of her parentage, which means she must decolonize her mind before she can love her Black-ness and whole self. Catana Tully reconnects with her siblings and untangles the root work of narrative and silences propagated by her German family. I cannot think of more than a handful of memoirs that conclude with love, forgiveness, and acceptance.
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