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Bitter Root, Vol. 1: Family Business by Chuck Brown, David F. Walker
5.0
challenging dark mysterious sad tense

Seriously this is probably one of the best comic series that I have ever read. It is set during the Harlem renaissance. The images and graphics is very much giving me Jazz and historical relevance. These comics are about a family that is trying their best to get rid of the evils in the world. While also dealing with multigenerational trauma. They are dealing with white folks who view them as less than themselves (human beings). These comics are more than a work of art and telling of conjure women and root work and how Black women has been on the forefront and the backbones of Black communities. I was loving every bit of it, even the hard parts.

This comic series also asked the question, “what happens to Black folks when the pain is too much and consume you?”

The best parts of these comics were the articles in the back that provides a more theoretical explanation for why things were explored a certain way in these comics. Their was close attention paid to the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Charles Chestnut, and W.E.B Dubois.