![]() And it does move slowly, missing traditional story beats in favor of a narrative that unravels with the logic and fluidity of a poem. the prose in this novel will pull you in even when the story moves slowly. It would be easy therefore to say that Johnson writes hate as well as she writes love, but I think the poignancy of the novel is in the complexity of their interplay. ![]() The intensity of Johnson’s portrayal of love and sacrifice make the novel’s perspective on racism all the more effective. Deep friendships, familial relationships, and even acquaintanceships are described with no less nuance and care. Johnson writes sex and longing without ever substituting one for the other, with scenes as steamy as they are fraught with emotion. ![]() The love in its pages is romantic, familial, platonic, and generational-it is beautiful and it is painful in the way only beautiful things can be. It’s anything but a traditional love story, though. interweaves history and unreality, the atmosphere of noir and the magic of fantasy, to form a moving, literary love story. ![]()
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