Copper Sun

A recommendation from my mother, a high school English teacher, Copper Sun was definitely penned for a younger audience. I have to remember that this novel is written for the "juvenile" audience; the same reason I have to excuse the writer of the Twilight series. As such, it is a good insight into what Africans and slaves experienced in the early days of this country. Although I could recommend it on this level, I did not enjoy my reading of the novel. There were portions of it that were too arbitrary in the writing. I understand that the elderly and/or experienced people in life can be seen as sages, but there were moments that I felt she broke from her writing mid-thought and then came back to it unable to complete the transitional idea. As a writer myself, I have experienced this. Kudos to her for getting past the "perfectionism" that keeps me from submitting anything for publication...ever.
I remain in the search of a good quality novel dealing with the slavery issue. I am intrigued to discover if this is a hole in literature or if I just haven't been exposed to the good writers of said genre as of yet.