There’s no denying this is a powerful book and it felt like I was reading a classic. 
Problem was…it felt like I was reading a classic. It was slow reading, some things hard to parse through because I felt like I was missing something. There is a lot of trauma, sexism, racism, and torture in this book to provide an accurate representation of the 1930s Deep South, but that also meant I could only take so much of it at a time. 
While some of the characters were certainly admirable in standing up for both justice and mercy, learning to forgive themselves and move forward, I still also had a hard time reading about these white characters side by side with black characters who were treated even more poorly. I get that’s part of the point, but I was more interested in their point of view and their hope. 
I don’t know, I just had a bit of a hard time with this one. But it was still well done.