Fruit of the Lemon: A Novel
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009BDWQ2W
Publish date: January 23rd 2007
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 339
Edition language: English
Andrew recommended this to me a while ago and I finally had the chance to read it! I was worried at first, because his last two have been, while very good, incredibly depressing, but this was a whole lot happier and more hopeful than White Teeth by Zadie Smith and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, so ...
This started off pretty interesting, but when the main character when to Jamaica it all sort of fell apart for me. The stories about the family history were very one dimensional and the way they were presented, made the second half of the book a bit jarring to read.
8 years ago
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