Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

2011 • 520 pages

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Follows the lives of Eric Jeffers and Morgan Haskell, two African Americans who meet at the ages of seventeen and nineteen, respectively, become a couple, and spend the next sixty years together.


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I didn't finish this one–didn't make it much past 100 pages. I “get” that this is an amazing work in various ways, and I'm not put off by the sex at all; I also get that there is a payoff in later chapters. I am not willing to work that hard for the payoff. Maybe someday.

February 1, 2015

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