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Title: waters down the pullitzer price
Review: With this book winning the pullitzer in 2004 and the premise being a freed slave who goes onto own slaves of his own, I anticipated a deep and complex novel with a moral conundrum spliced in. Instead, the book tried too hard in its scope and was watered down with so many characters that you never figure out until the end that there isn't even a "main character" at all. You can tell the author even knew there was too many characters because he constantly reminds you who the characters are by repeating who's related to whom and reiterating what there role is. You're given so much info on secondary characters with fleshed-out back stories only to figure out it plays no part of the story at all. After completing the book , I felt like somebody was just droning on about a series of people only to forget what the point of the story was.
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