![]() We’re rooted straight away in Atlanta life: In this novel, we start off by meeting Dana Lynn Yarboro and in the first line we know her father is a bigamist. Anyway, I like reading about Atlanta as I have actually spent a few days there myself, including a walk around the old traditionally Black area and a visit to the wonderful APEX Museum. I really want to read her earlier two, “Leaving Atlanta” and “The Untelling” although they don’t seem to have been republished in the UK yet. This is Jones’ third book set in Atlanta and was originally published before her international break-out novel, “ An American Marriage“. Maybe you manage to claw your way out, but then what have you accomplished?” (p. ![]() Once you get in it, you’re pretty much trapped. They’ve been working their way slowly up my TBR, but then my friend Meg told me she’d just spent the book token I gave her for Christmas on some books, including this one, and I thought I’d do a little offline readalong with her (amusingly, she’s been reading “ The Girl with the Louding Voice” this week so we’ve been busy swapping thoughts on both). Lovely fellow-book-blogger Bookish Beck kindly sent me a lovely box of books just before Christmas – ones I’d expressed an interest in on her blog or ones she thought I’d like. ![]()
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