Small Island

Small Island

2004 • 441 pages

Ratings19

Average rating3.8

15

This was an interesting and heartbreaking novel about Jamaican soldiers who served on behalf of the British Empire during World War II, and the racism they faced both as a “different sort of Black” from American GIs and in England after the war.

The character voices were all unique and it was interesting to see the same situations from their different points of view. I docked a star because it started getting kind of melodramatic and silly near the end.

October 29, 2020