Blonde Roots – Bernadine Evaristo
Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris, from England, is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next, someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the hold of a slave-ship sailing to the New World . . .
In this fantastically imaginative inversion of the transatlantic slave trade – in which ‘whytes’ are enslaved by black people – Bernardine Evaristo has created a thought-provoking satire that is as accessible and readable as it is intelligent and insightful. Blonde Roots brings the shackles and cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises timely questions about the society of today.
‘A bold and brilliant game of counterfactual history. Evaristo keep[s] her wit and anger at a spicy simmer throughout’ Daily Telegraph
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Review from Book Club Meeting:
Whilst we all felt this was an interesting read and the overall concept was well executed, we also felt some of the embellishments were unnecessary and in some circumstances actually detracted from the impact of the book. This was a book that we all needed to really concentrate on whilst reading. We also were left a little disappointed by the ending and would have liked a little more from the story at this point.
Overall Blonde Roots by Bernardino Evaristo was awarded ⭐️⭐️⭐️