John Vercher Follow

This book is one that stay with you long after you close the covers. The story lingers and leaves you reflecting, considering, and pondering not just the characters but power of legacy, family, and personal identity. Blend in some compelling Magical Realism to take the tension and mystery up another notch and any reader will be left affected by the original and haunting book that still intrigues me. I was particularly drawn in by the conflict that was eloquently included iand kept drawing me deeper.

How will the cover connect to the larger narrative and story? Will the duality of the cover, deep ocean with the jellyfish vs and the land with the loose dirt act clues to the larger mystery or will they be metaphors that I should consider part of the novel's argument? Will the narrator be the rich black soil that was the foundation for cotton and slavery or the ownership of the land that was the plantation owner? Jellyfish are beautiful to look at but deadly in their element, yet take them out of that specific world and they almost dissolve in the fragility? There is so much that connects me and which draws me in and resonates to makes me feel uncertain and uncomfortable, something to be embraced and which challenged me to investigate and discover how all these contradictions and pieces work together which this author excelles at.

This is a book you do not simply read, but one that you explore!