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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Whole Hearted Praise for "Half A Heart",
By A Customer
This review is from: Half a Heart (Hardcover)
Rosellen Brown has created very real and all-too human characters in this vivid book. Miriam and Ronnee's struggles to accept themselves, to accept one another, and to accept the past are powerful and painful. The complex issues of race, motherhood (and daughterhood), class, and honesty are addressed beautifully, with powerful prose and visceral descriptions. Brown enters the heads of both characters with equal strength and emotional intuition. Highly recommended!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
kept me up all night,
By A Customer
This review is from: Half a Heart (Hardcover)
I had already read a quarter of this book when the fairly bad reviews came out, but I plugged along anyway. Half way through the book, the plot really came together, and by the end (which was the part that kept me up), I was very moved. A lot of questions which are never answered are frustrating, such as why she agreed to give up the baby in the first place, but in the main, I thought it was a very touching and well written book. Maybe having a daughter of the same age, I felt all the emotions more strongly, but I am anxious to read more by this author.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Decide for Yourself,
By A Customer
This review is from: Half a Heart (Hardcover)
Hard to believe I read the same book these reviewers are trashing. It's far more complex and sympathetic on all sides, not sentimental but challenging (maybe that's the problem)and unwilling to accept easy stereotypes. Ronnee is no "tragic mulatto" -- she may be confused but she's much too dignified for that. And her father is no big black brute. So what's going on here? Protecting the turf,to keep white writers from poaching on territory that isn't "theirs"? I guess readers will have to decide for themselves but they should read "Half a Heart" and make up their own minds.
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