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Originally Posted by ReadingManiac
So is Huck Finn, but in both cases it's a matter of historical accuracy.
Which leads me to a recommendation:
Yellow Crocus by Laila ibrahim and the sequel, Mustard Seed. There's a third book but I haven't read it yet. It's on my Kindle.
These tell just how bad it was to be black before and just at the end of the civil war, from the slaves' point of view. It's very well-written and historically accurate, which means it's disturbing.
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A lot of good historical fiction is disturbing. Take an excellent book, The Tattooist of Auschwitz. It's a very disturbing book. So was Mila 18. One of the points of historical fiction is to provide a window to our past and hopefully learn from the mistakes. Dickens in that regard wrote a lot about the plight of children. I'd like to think we've learned from those past mistakes.
I don't reject reading a good historical fiction novel because it might be disturbing.