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Got excited when I got my hands on this one. However, my first impression was disappointment. I almost stopped reading when an example of racism given was a lady picking up her purse after catching someone approaching from the corner of her eye. I've done that before, movement in my eye reminding me I should be paying attention to my purse to discover it's my husband. I found it to be the only misplaced example in the whole book. Cause the rest of this book is breathtaking in terms of how the author frames three different stories: Nurse Ruth, a White supremacist and the nurse's lawyer. Now I understand that that moment of assumption, any assumption on both sides is the point the author was making. To know more, read it ;-) I don't want to give anything away. I hope it's enough to say the book is written well and held my attention throughout, once I got beyond the one example mentioned above. It's also an important book for the topics it raises and asks o...

In describing the theme of the book Waterstones says: One of our greatest living novelists resurrects the short life of Hamnet Shakespeare, in this lyrically written and emotionally devastating account of the Bard’s only son. Utterly immersive and convincing, Hamnet is a poignant period tale that not only shines a light on an oft-neglected area of Shakespearean history but speaks to wider themes of grief and loss with impeccable poise and unflinching honesty. The words “speaks to wider themes” I connected to the fact that a single piece of writing can awaken many impressions within us. Reading Hamnet I was reminded of the words of another writer below: “No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.” Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1900-1944). His point, according to Bodhipaksa , was that these awakenings are not random, they come from somewhere. A chain of cause and effect. I feel that w...