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Title: An idea for consideration
Review: What accounts for the overwhellming response to and acceptance of a book that seems so hard to believe? Other than its rather sappy portrayal of death and its idealized African American characters, there might be another reason,. I suggest that the subtext of this book (since it doesn't seem to come from the author's experiences or acquaintances as reported in her interview published in the back of the book) is an unconscious wish of a white woman (the author disguised as Lily) to be forgiven for her sins against African Americans (symbolically represented as Lily's killing of her mother before she was old enough to be held legally responsible) which is fulfilled through unconditional love and acceptance. Thus the complexity and anxiety of race relations is happily denied to the comfort and relief of what I imagine is a mostly white, female readership.
