A novel about a black family trying to make a living in the badlands of South Dakota. The book is well written and you really feel connected to the family's fortunes. The husband in the family is not a very likeable character or very easy to understand, which makes the wife's devotion a bit difficult to sympathise with.
The detail of the hardship of the badlands is very interesting. The way communities work together, regardless of race, is touching particularly as the novel is set in the 1920s during the Chicago race riots.
I enjoyed this book although it wasn't fantastic.
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