Witness
Jamel Brinkley
Literary Fiction
Witness
by Jamel Brinkley
—· 240 p· 2023
reflective
Overview
About
‘Brinkley’s sentences are daggers’ RAVEN LEILANI ‘Extraordinary ... moving, compelling and virtuosic’ OBSERVER ‘A triumph’ COLIN BARRETT
Pages
240
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
—
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Reader feel
Prose9
Character Introspection9
Emotional depth8
Narration8
Social Commentary8
Pacing6
Plot twists4
Worldbuilding3
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