Title: Long, overdrawn, and boring...
Review: Jeffery Renard Allen's first novel "Rails Under My Back" is a 500 page + endurance test. It tests how long you can endure one sentance paragraphs(Jeffery, you are not Hemingway), characters that won't shut up after you get sick of them(Lula Mae, Jesus), and a generally confusing narrative. The family tree helped matters, but I still couldn't really give a crap about this dysfunctional family. By the end, I was glad the cops came and forced Jesus to leave, and I never felt so disappointed in a novel. This claims to be great African-American fiction, instead it's an overhyped "novel" with overuse of "urban" lingo.
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