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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Leaving Atlanta" by Tayari Jones.

The protagonists are children living in Atlanta in the time of the child murders. I've just started it, but so far it's good. It's coming on the tails of a book I enjoyed immensely ("A Gentleman in Moscow"), so I'm trying hard not to compare.[/quote]

I’d love to know what you think of this book! I’m reading Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones right now and am really enjoying it. (I read An American Marriage several years ago when it was getting a ton of buzz, but TBH I am liking Silver Sparrow a lot more.) I was in Atlanta for a work trip last week and saw Leaving Atlanta prominently displayed at an independent bookstore there. I was thinking of adding it to my TBR.[/quote]

I really liked it. I too was in 5th grade in 1979, and I think she really captured what it was like to be that awkward tween age at that time in America. But for the heavy and tragic circumstances of the murders, it would be a great YA book. At its core, it’s a book about children that captures their voices really well. She’s a good writer, and I thought it was clever how she presented the story through three narrators in the third, second, and first person, respectively. 
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