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inthestacks
Feb 25, 2014inthestacks rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Jack Lewis, a young Navy musician stationed in Newfoundland at the end of the Second World War, meets and marries Vivian, a naïve, local girl. They travel to Windsor, Ontario, where Vivian discovers, in meeting Jack’s family, that he is black but has been passing for white since an early age. Vivian struggles to accept this and to find acceptance with Jack’s family. Too many plot holes and some awkwardly-written passages make for a weak story overall. Hard to believe this was long-listed for the 2013 Giller Prize.