Lakewood

You give of yourself to make your country a better place. You give of yourself to keep us safe.

Just finishing this book I am left in a haze.

To be honest throughout most of this story I felt overly cautious, almost in a daze, and not quite knowing what the following pages would have in store for me. The horrors of this book don't just touch but exclaim about the wrongdoings systematically done to people of color in the United States. Throughout the monotony of Lena's “work life” at Great Lakes Shipping Company and the actual very horrifying things she experienced daily there was no way for me to read this book without it leaving an impression on me.

This was not horror in the form of being bloody and gruesome although it did have its moments. This book is horror in the way that it shines the light at our very real shortcomings.