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Summary: Touching
Review: I must firstly disagree with the review that I have read. This book was capturing, and I was unable to put it down, I was reading in ques, while travelling and staying awake late into the night to finish it. I am a Mental Health nurse, and can understand the chain of events in Ernestine's life, especially in the era which she lived. Ms Hunt did an exceptional job of locating her 'lost and forgotten' grandmother, and whatever her motivation was, she appeared to increase the quality of Ernestine's life. I would be interested to learn how she spent the following years. Again Ms Hunt is to be commended. I have recommended the book to many friends,who have all enjoyed it, and after four years, I recommended it to another friend only last week.
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Summary: Can we have some more, please?
Review: I read this book some years ago. I even called a friend who now lives once more in her home town of Memphis, TN. She assured me of the accuracy of events and names. Reading this book was equivalent to eating and enjoying a good multi-course meal. However, before I could finish the dessert, the table was cleared. As with many, if not all readers of this book, I hope that there will be a follow up book delving further for explanations. We are left hanging in mid air over quite a few issues. Does Marsha Hunt feel she gave all that she felt we needed to know, or did she grow weary and/or scared of finding more answers? Truly she cannot be content with the finality she offered to us. Still, bravo to her for her determination.
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Summary: Repossessing Ernestine is a fabulous outline of a Memoir
Review: Repossessing Ernestine is a very interesting, compelling novel, however, Marsha Hunt should have given the reader more history of the "Talented Tenth". I am sure there some readers were lost and confused with many points in the book. More information about the "light skinned" elite in America and their history would better explain how Ernestine's world evolved, thus, lending credence to the idealism that was her true captor. Ernestine Hunt was a victim of social mores, beliefs and practices more so than alleged "mental illness".Marsha Hunt did not explain how it came to be that her mother and father met, married then divorced. The reader is not given an explanation of why her father was not present in your life and how she truly felt about that. These facts would speak to the evloution of the "Talented Tenth" tradition up to 1956. Repossessing Ernstine is a fabulous outline of an interesing memoir/biography. Marsha Hunt should follow up on this novel with another, giving more depth and insight into important historical incidences of Ernestine's early life. The reader needs to be re-introuduced to Ernestine Hunt - this time, instead of offering participant observation facts, invite the reader into Ernestine's world.
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