Read Three Strike Summer
Apr. 28th, 2023 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyhttps://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60320600
Despite the sunny appearance of the cover, this definitely is a well-written book of the old school. Sure, nobody's mother technically dies, but... that ending, guys.
I guess I never expected to read a book where the end result of organizing is "somebody snitched to the boss and Dad barely escaped with his life, and now we gotta go down the road and pretend we never heard of our civil rights, so same old, same old. Also, can't really blame the snitch, he's just looking out for his kid, so...."
And yet, that's the book I just read! Honestly, I would've been less surprised if her mother had died in a freak kerosene accident.
Still, it was worth a read, despite the downer ending. Things get better for the USA, of course, the Depression eventually is going to end, but maybe nothing is going to get better for our protagonist and her family, not right then.
Despite the sunny appearance of the cover, this definitely is a well-written book of the old school. Sure, nobody's mother technically dies, but... that ending, guys.
I guess I never expected to read a book where the end result of organizing is "somebody snitched to the boss and Dad barely escaped with his life, and now we gotta go down the road and pretend we never heard of our civil rights, so same old, same old. Also, can't really blame the snitch, he's just looking out for his kid, so...."
And yet, that's the book I just read! Honestly, I would've been less surprised if her mother had died in a freak kerosene accident.
Still, it was worth a read, despite the downer ending. Things get better for the USA, of course, the Depression eventually is going to end, but maybe nothing is going to get better for our protagonist and her family, not right then.
