The Intended

I'm growing more fond of this book the more I go back to it for class and analyze what Dabydeen was doing with language as he wrote this. It's kind of remarkable and amazing how he makes illiterate characters so fascinated with traditional English and have insight that native speakers really can't get to. He turns our traditional English on its head and messes with it in ways that create meaning in ways I would never have thought of. I originally disliked this book when I started it, and I'm amazed by how much I keep going back to it now and loving what Dabydeen did with it.