John Woman

 

by Walter Mosley (read by Dion Graham) c. 2018

 

There is so much more here than I can absorb in one reading

I don't remember who said what that caused me to delve further into Walter Mosley but before I knew it, I was adding John Woman to my Plus Catalog reads. I've read two of Mosley's Easy Rawlins mystery stories but didn't want to read any more of his mysteries; I wanted to see if he had written anything else that I might be interested in reading. For some reason, I chose John Woman.

I just finished and already I am at the keyboard, getting my thoughts on paper. I tore through it but realized early on that I would have to read it again and maybe again before I got it all. There is so much going on here. Some of it I found to be disturbing. Most of it, I found intriguing-- and it's the intriguing that kept me reading. But, what is sending me back for the re-reads is all that he has to say about deconstructing history, how we confront the past, what is truth, how do we move forward.

I have to read this book again.