EXCELLENT book :-) :-) :-)

Wow. Just, WOW. This book is AWESOME!!!! :-) :-) :-)
1. Excellently written.
2. Main character is a strong woman with completely believable and understandable flaws.
3. Supporting characters are also complex; no stereotypes here!
4. Main character is brown, as is every other character but one.
5. Provides in-depth insight into a sub-culture of wealth, extreme separation of societal classes (as is present in many cultures throughout the world), pride, religion, and multigenerational co-habitation (as was the norm in MANY Western societies until quite recently, and still is in some).
6. Narration is excellent.
Basically, this book kicks a**, and is a very refreshing change from the books normally published in the Western world.
I eagerly anticipate the publication of the announced sequel :-) :-) :-)

In an ideal Hollywood, this would make a GREAT mini-series (movie would have to cut out too much). However, in real-world Hollywood, this book would either be adapted into a too-short movie, or a too-altered mini series; either one would contain changes destructive to the book’s insights and characterization. (Nvm the skin tone of the cast; seriously, a Hollywood movie in which only one character, and a minor one at that, is pale skinned? Yeah, right.) Also, the casting of said movie would no doubt follow Hollywood’s dictate that women need to meet its unhealthy, unrealistic, extremely tiny minority -based standards of “beauty”, thus removing important aspects of some of the book’s characters. The men, of course, would not be subject to a similar requirement; their characters’ physical attributes would be quite likely to be much closer to those of the book.

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