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David Diop, Anna Moschovakis: At Night All Blood Is Black (Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 4 stars

Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself …

Review of 'At Night All Blood Is Black' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

This is maybe like a 2.5. I was enjoying the first part pretty well, saved a number of quotes. But then the repetition started to bug me, the tone took a turn with the flashbacks, Fary was a big eye roll, and then we end with rape and murder (as far as I can tell) because shock factor. I think you can tell a story with those things in it, of course, I’m just over women and rape being used casually like this, or solely to develop a man’s story. It’s irresponsible at this point - to me.