That is, the plot isn't quite as important as how the characters react, and what they do. The plot, the loa, the mambo, it's all a way to get to that, to heighten what people would do to each other in a world without the loa or mambo. And it's the scenes between Jack and Josiah that really cin...
One of the reasons that I so enjoyed this autobiography was Livesay's passion for words. From novels, she learned that "[t:]he social frustrations women faced in the nineteenth century were no less galling than the social freedoms of the twentieth; in neither case could a woman be wholly a human bei...