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Review title: Oh my god!
Product review: This book is so bad it defies description. The best way to describe it is to call it a fictionalized essay. At no point does Walker give her narrative over to anything like rising action, metaphor, characterization, or a believable narrative voice. Instead, she harps on her themes about the differences between black women and black men, and the solidarity that can be found between all women (oh, and how a womanist consciousness can be achieved by wearing overalls and a man's hat!) What a scream. With absolutely no ear for dialogue, Walker plods on through banal image after banal image until the final scene, which uses a crazy old woman who thinks she's pregnant as comic relief. This book is as bad in its simplistic/political way as her later work is in its spiritual/overheated way. The only currency Walker has anymore is as a public figue, not as a writer.
