Review: Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down, by Neta Jackson
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Review: Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down, by Neta Jackson
What I like best about this book is that it takes an honest look at race relations as well as non-racial prejudices commonly experienced in our country, as well as what it means to forgive and to be forgiven, even as they play out for members of a Christian prayer group. I even found some of my own prejudices challenged, as I held certain images in my mind of some of the characters, and later learned they were different from what I expected. Whether or not Jackson intended that experience for her readers, it made the reading of the book that much more educational from a cultural standpoint. At the same time, I never got the feeling that the author had an agenda of assigning guilt or innocence, perpetrator or victim. The story unfolds in such a way that each perspective is a human one, and each character a portrait of what it might look like to hurt and to heal, to forgive and to be forgiven.
Overall the things I would have changed in this story are minor. A couple of the interactions between the Yada Yada members seemed cliché, and the author wrapped up some of the loose ends too tidily. In what I assume was an attempt to give readers a more satisfying ending, Jackson concluded in a way that was far neater than what tends to happen in real life. But isn’t that what most authors do?
-- May 14th, 2016, 8:28 pm --
I give this one 4 out of 4 stars.