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Indigo

in Search of the Color That Seduced the World
Feb 27, 2013Lucchesa rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I really wanted to like this book (my husband gave it to me), but it was kind of a mess. I'm interested in artistic process, but McKinley never walks us through exactly how indigo cloth is produced. In places she crafts beautiful prose; in others she writes banalities like "Indigo is love." The narrative meanders, never quite getting to the indigo heartland she claimed to be searching for, and then ending abruptly in New York with the author caring for two children she has completely failed to account for previously. I wish she had given it a better effort; it felt rushed and disjointed.