Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings

from gayla.bassham

This book is a big, shapeless, unwieldy mess. I think there's something admirable in the attempt to write it, and I think O'Connor has worked hard at getting into Thomas Jefferson's and Sally Hemings's heads, as well as into the eighteenth-century zeitgeist, in an attempt to understand how they u...

from

Interesting idea in the way the different strings of the story come together - known facts and imagined possibilities. But about mid way through the book descends in to heterosexual male pornography and that is just plain ugly.

from BooksForDinner

This just didn't happen for me, didn't finish. Well written for sure, but it lost my interest with all the jumping around and trains and movie theaters. Art, certainly, and I applaud the effort, just maybe art that I didn't love that much.