"For reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family; and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country" (143).

"But still, it would have been the outrage of a white man, unthreatened by these hypocrisies" (325).

While I appreciate the authorial choice of the letter writing section, it was jarring and a little irritating. I missed Octavian's voice.