Book Review COLEMAN HILL Kim Coleman Foote
Thank you to the author Kim Coleman Foote, publishers SJP Lit, and NetGalley for an digital copy. All views are mine. Opening quote: People will go after you for combining poverty and abuse. . . . [P] eople will say there’s poverty without abuse, and you will never say anything. . . . This is a story about love, you know that. . . . Because we all love imperfectly. —Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton loc.44 Three (or more) things I loved: 1. This writing is so gorgeous, holy sh-t. The intense beat keeps the book moving even though I haven't read anything this heavy since ROOTS. I can't even pick a passage, at least not yet, because the whole thing is so moving... 2.Foote's descriptions of human state are wonderfully and terribly detailed. For example, accute addiction: You ain’t gotten off the parlor sofa in days, and you know you need to. The state’ll take away your children and the landlord’ll run you out the house if you don’t get back...