The Pox Party
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Average rating3.8
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
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I'm a little in-between on this book. One the one hand, it is beautifully written and it's easily seen why it has won the awards it has. The characters are well developed and their language used is dead on with the historical era the book takes place in. However, it was hard to focus on it... it never really grabbed my attention and held on. Towards the middle of the book, I merely continued reading because of the beautiful word choice and language (hoping I would maybe catch on in my own speech) but it was a rather boring book. I would still recommend it to older teens and adults.
Loved it. The style took me a while to get used to, and I really preferred his narrative to the letters, but god. Amazing and disturbing and sometimes hard to read, but excellent.
Absolutely marvelous. Read in one sitting on an airplane, and I thought I was nuts to bring this book along.
I could read a whole book of letters from Evidence Goring to his sister.
