I think it was the elements of magical realism that were just a bit too much for me (similar to my complaints with The Mortifications). I liked the characters and I thought Leonie was especially well described. I’m not sure if it was the audio or the text. There was something in it that just didn’t click with me. I wanted to like this book more than I did. When the white father of Leonie’s children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she’s high Mam is dying of cancer and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.
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