Sombody's Daughter

We read this for our Books And Brunch group. This year we selected all of the books for the year back before summer free read. None of us could remember who suggested this book and why we thought it was a good idea. All we could think of is that it won a lot of acclaim and awards. None of us could figure out why. It was disjointed and I think the main theme was how this girl’s life would have been better (?) if her father had not been sent to prison, but it also talked a lot about how rotten her relationship with her mother was and how she was raped as a young girl. Her father was in prison for rape and they never addressed that. The book also spent a lot of time talking about what a great writer this author is and I just wasn’t impressed with the writing. Again, disjointed. I will say, it was interesting coming off of Invisible Man that she spent a great deal of her time in grade school trying to be invisible, fly under the radar. 3 out of 5 stars - and we decided as B & B that we don’t need to read our vegetables. This was the February selection for Books and Brunch. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54860610-somebody-s-daughter