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Title: racist and sold-on-itself
Review: I found this work racist. Although it takes place in Uganda, the only two Africans we get to know well are both demonized. "Colored people" are introduced specifically to provide "local color". Although the protagonist is said to be from the US South, there is no analysis of her racial attitudes.In terms of style, the pontification with which each chapter begins becomes more ludicrous and unreadable as the book progresses. There is a lot of babble about love, but I never knew what anyone meant by it, and the sex scenes struck me as sentimental and fraudulent - unfelt. Children are used as accessories.A really smug performance. For a novel that struggles honestly with the issues raised here, see Janette Turner Hospital, "The Ivory Swing" or anything by Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Chinua Achebe, or even Joyce Cary's "Mister Johnson".
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