Overall I think that this will be an interesting book to read. I thought the book started out slow, which caused me to be confused. I didn’t understand at first that the mother was Jamaican and the father that past away was white. I found the friendship between the girl and Tia to be an interesting one. Did they meet by walking past each other everyday or were they introduced? I found the scene when Tia stole the dress and took the pennies to really show how poor she was and that she would take anything that she could get. I think that the mother remarried to have someone to fix up the house and bring an income into the home so her and her two kids didn’t have to struggle through life. The ending part where the mother is asking to leave, I believe she wants to leave to get away from the people that killed her horse and the fact that she believes that she is cursed. I have a few questions: How old is the narrator? Is the sun mentally handicapped that is why he can’t talk and walk? How did the father fall in love with a slave daughter? And can they not own slaves anymore because the US outlawed slavery?
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