A review by blairewithane
Imitation of Life by Fannie Hurst

2.0

This book has to be thought of in its historical context but I didn’t find it held up particularly well. The dialect that all of Delilah’s lines are written in is so exaggerated as to be almost unreadable. I also had the impression going in that a larger part of the plot was about race. The parts that work better are bea’s story - the rise of a businesswoman going it on her own and her relationships with her daughter and struggles with work-life balance. And the ending shocked but perhaps should have been expected.