I thought the book had merit in the writing. It was rather mesmerizing with dread, indolence, nature, lies and love. If you look at the story in the plain light of day, yeah, it is ugly. But half close your eyes; smell the fruit, feel the sun, hear the wind; rather hypnotic. It seems to me that the author wants to explore social injustices and the psychology of victims and she chose two women; one white, privileged, hard-working, bereaved, divorced, emotionally needy and sick with cancer; one black, young, orphaned by murder, her body sold many times from childhood onward, mentally unstable, poor, in a strange land with no one except a pimp to call friend even as she rejects a wealthy white suitor. She sets these women up to share a house, the young black woman caring for the older sick white woman. I wouldn't dismiss this author's book, it was interesting, thought-provoking.

I'm going to put this book in a LFL

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