Jackie Kay

Lamplighter

Dee B. 

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

- My story is the story of sugar. -

How do you adequately express how raw and sensitive and broken open this piece makes you feel? You can't. You simply let it happen. You simply shout from every rooftop to anyone willing to listen, that this script needs to be consumed in all forms of media. From the devastating truths that the 'Foreword' lays bare to the reader, to the emotions each character is forced to portray, this work proves its necessity. It's a beautiful pain that I want shared the world over because we NEED to talk about our dirty pasts.

Jackie Kay says it best when she said that "there can be no such thing as too many stories about slavery." The way that part of human history is swept under the rug is the reason much of the world is the way it is today. This is a good first step.

Lamplighter

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