Book One 2009

I just finished rereading Meeting of the Waters, a novel by Kim McLarin. The book is about the complexities of an interracial relationship; how two people come together and try to get past the judgments of the world, as well as their own judgments (maybe ones they didn't know they had). I remember this book being an eye-opener for me about my own views on the world, my own judgments. Rereading it now, though, through older eyes (and maybe through married eyes), I see it more as a story about a couple who are fighting incessantly to make something that is too awesome to lose work. Which is hard work.

I also reread it because I couldn't remember if they could make it work. Now I know...