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Small Island is B I G!!! I am thankful to have been given a copy by British friends who found it wonderful and thought I would as well (I live in Calif.) Each of the voices is believable and poignant, and they are very different from each other. Having both Londoners and Jamaicans as personal friends--though in a different era (current)--I found the main characters lovable knowing their faults, and my heart ached for their hardships. It would be naive to believe the racial climate has reversed in the intervening years, though it has become more subtle, in the U.K. as well as in the U.S.A., but I am thankful for the brilliant exposition Levy has provided, and I will definitely check out her other books.
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Small Island by Andrea Levy
Marcia Mills, June 7, 2010
Small Island is B I G!!! I am thankful to have been given a copy by British friends who found it wonderful and thought I would as well (I live in Calif.) Each of the voices is believable and poignant, and they are very different from each other. Having both Londoners and Jamaicans as personal friends--though in a different era (current)--I found the main characters lovable knowing their faults, and my heart ached for their hardships. It would be naive to believe the racial climate has reversed in the intervening years, though it has become more subtle, in the U.K. as well as in the U.S.A., but I am thankful for the brilliant exposition Levy has provided, and I will definitely check out her other books.