patrick_co2d17

Someone gave this book to me because I am of mixed race and so is the main character. I've always been down with Faulkner's depiction of black people. OK, I don't know if that sentence really connects well with the ones it's between. Regardless, the back of the book really emphasized the fact that the hero--whose name I think is some kind something that leads to the initials J.C.--is torn between black and white, and I really did not want to hear it, so I waited awhile before reading it. When I did, I really liked it. Less about race than just being lost and also about having a fucked up childhood, unloved by parents, something I find really really hard to comprehend and which is truly tragic. Anyway having that childhood and then kind of colliding with another fucked up person and I guess (and this is all a very vague memory) how wonderful yet ultimately doomed such a collision is. I do like this book.

2023-06-05 05:31