The Travelers

The Travelers by Regina Porter
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This novel is written in a series of narratives of characters that intersect in various times and places, culminating in the interracial marriage of Claudia, who is black, and Rufus, who is white. Some of the stories are beautiful and affecting, and having two racial perspectives on the same time period is also interesting. But I found the cast of characters to be just too many, the time-line too sprawling. The effectiveness was lost with just too much to keep straight. Photographs sometimes added to the narrative, other times the narrative seemed contrived to fit them in. Definitely not a bad read, just maybe needs some focus.

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