By: Sherry Jones
Simon and Schuster
Fiction
Published in 2018
I received an arc review from a Goodread Giveaway.
I gave this book 3 stars. This book is about Josephine's life. I am not sure why it is label as fiction, because it read as a memoir. Josephine did not have an easy life growing up in the early 1900's. Her mom was abusive and had her working outside the home to bring in money at an early age. At 13 she was pregnant and married for the first time. I did enjoy reading about the history of that time and how she was treated as a person of color. She always stated that her daddy was white but her skin didn't reveal any of that.
What I didn't like was that she was actually a little stuck up. She believed herself to be better than anyone else. She was also involved in a lot of married men. What really got me was that she was married for the second and cheated on her husband but had a fit when she found out her husband was doing the same thing.
I do enjoy reading about public figure who want to make the world a better place. I just don't know why I wasn't enjoying this book as much as I hoped to.
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