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Title: Too Wordy
Review: This book gives deep insight to the lives of Afro-American people in the 1940's. Ann Petry went into a lot of depth on the reasons for the actions of the main character, however I thought that she went into too much detail when describing most situations, while other points were not described so that the reader can understand the main character's actions. At times, she would go into so much explanation that the reader would lose track of what is happening in the book. She used flashbacks to help explain the main character's thoughts, but in doing this, she lost the reader. The flashbacks are helpful in explaining, but are a little excessive. Yet other information, such as the influence that the grandmother and father, is not explained to the reader until later in the book. The main plot of the book did make the reader understand what it was like to live in the 1940's, but it could have been done with much less explanation.
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