Thank you Simon Audio for the gifted audiobook.
by: Janet Beard
narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya, Andi Arndt, Robin Eller, Angel Pean,
Candace Thaxton, Megan Tusing, and Nancy Wu
rating: liked
Beginning with Grace in 2019 who needs something interesting for her history project and learns of a murder ballad supposedly written about one of her relations, this book then jumps back in time to the early 1900s and each chapter focuses on a woman in this family generation after generation going down the family line. And each chapter is titled after a folk song with the lyrics interwoven into the lives in these stories.
I loved the song element of this book. It adds so much texture and authenticity to the story.
I am not a fan however of this story telling style where we get brief snippets of the lives of 9 different women (very Homegoing-esque if you have read that). It very much is appropriate for this book, but I am missing some depth of character development that I crave.
Even though it's not my favorite style of book, it was still engaging and I was intrigued to keep going to find what happened. Plus the audiobook is a full cast of very talented women who only added to the depth the book does have.
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