God Sends Sunday by Arna Bontemps

God Sends Sunday Reviews

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  Andrea

  A classic from one of the earlier published African American authors, and fascinating for that. A very quick read with a loose plot that the writing and subject doesn't quite redeem (which would lead more to three stars), but loads of dialect and snippets of old blues (even more fascinating). It's an almost charming lackadaisical account of the world right after emancipation, a rather grim and terrifying world of simplicity and avarice and deep poverty and racetrack wealth. Beating your woman is more intimate, more a mark of love than sex. And the portrayal of L.A.'s old mudtown is extraordinary, with its walk along country roads to Watts to buy cheap liquor...
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  Daniel Polansky

  A fictionalized biography of the author’s uncle, a reconstruction era jockey, vagrant and ne’er-do-well. A vibrant recreation of black America at the turn of the century and a charmingly amoral character study. Good stuff.
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  Errol

  So so novel about African Americans in early twentieth century Los Angeles.