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I bought it at a charity shop and read it over half term, I thought it was lovely and a bit quirky and different. The racial tensions in the book were especially poignant in view of what has happened in America over the last weeks, culminating in Obama being elected today. It really is not so long ago that black people were actually granted the opportunity to vote.
I read it for our book club. (What is it with book clubs and heart-string-tugging books?)
It was OK, but not that interesting, imho.
Now that I have a DD, I'd rather avoid reading books where a little girl loses her mum and then fills dead mum's gloves with cotton wool, takes them to bed and hugs them, thinking of mum's arms hugging her
I loved it. Funnily enough, have been thinking about it a lot over the last few days! I got it free with a magazine during the summer which was great because otherwise I probably wouldn't have read it.
The copy i have has book club notes in the back which go on about gender issues, strong women, etc. I thought it was much more a historical US race thing than a gender thing.
