Anchor Texts: Annotations from Chapters Nine - Ten of 'The Narrows' by Ann Petry

Quick reflections from what I read this week.

I’d hoped to read our full chunk for this week, but I’m glad I ended up with time to let chapters 9-10 sink in. (I'll catch up this weekend!) So far, The Narrows is rich with social commentary and a depth of theme-building that blows me away, but these chapters in particular felt significant.

In Chapter Nine, we get another flashback scene from Link as …