![]() ![]() Get a mixed 4-pack if you haven’t had their beers before. They first and foremost a quite good beer maker and second are a black run business. For those of us in Los Angeles, Crowns & Hops is a brewery coming to Inglewood in the next year or two. I am going to go the really obvious route here. I thought, more than a few times, “don’t do that, it is not going to end well.” A little nod to balance would have highlighted the rocky times in sharper focus especially considering the slavery and Native American darkness of early Georgia that flashes throughout the book. Early pregnancy and drugs are there but at times the book is just too much. This book has garnered all sorts of accolades but I wish that there was less tripping of one’s self going on. Du Bois is a powerful intergenerational, feminist, and womanist novel. She is fierce and smart in equal measure but she like most of the characters has lived with weight saddled on them and then they add more with their life choices. But all the characters get a moment in the sun, hence the length of the book. ![]() Our lead is Ailey, the youngest daughter. Jeffers is adept at pulling the tangled strings of personal history of individual members of an extended family tighter and tighter until the point where each step becomes a boom throughout the genealogy. ![]()
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