Niecy and Annie are "cradle friends." Two motherless babies that remain friends for their lives. Tayari Jones writes beautifully, and their story is interesting, but it did not captivate me. I was sympathetic to Niecy and Annie's plights and I liked the alternating chapters and the view of Black life in the 1950s and 1960s in Atlanta and the rest of the South, but I was not quite able to connect. The themes of love, friendship and kinship are all moving, and the story pulled on my heartstrings at times, I just wish I was able to feel closer to their inner selves.
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