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Title: Tedious to listen to and hard to follow
Review: I listened to all the controversy about this book,laughed out loud at the clever name, and was hoping for some insight into the minor characters or parody of the story told in the novel. Instead, Cindy, the mulatto half-sister, the protagonist of this story, does not seem to exist in her own right, only in how she relates to and resents the novels' privileged characters. It was difficult to follow the relationships (To be fair, I listened to, rather than read this book.) Cindy's diary gradually reveals the true story behind her sale and earns her mother, Mammy, the respect she deserves. She attains, then disdains, what the "Other" coveted. Only in the end, as she develops a relationship with the colored congressman, is the story unpredictable and Cindy developed, at least a bit, as a character in her own right.
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