A review by cmcarr
The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden

1.0

I feel like I missed something with this book. It has sort of a Forest Gump feel, where Harlan goes through life bumping into famous people and popping up in memorable historical scenes. But my biggest challenge was simply the plot. It moved so quickly that I never really got wrapped up in it before it moved on and reinvented itself. Harlan’s life was flying by--sentence by sentence. In a paragraph, the author could move through a scene that could serve as the basis for an entire novel. It was an easy read with short chapters so I pushed through.