{"id":20568,"date":"2026-03-25T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=20568"},"modified":"2026-03-01T16:17:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:17:28","slug":"review-curse-hester-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-curse-hester-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20567\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-curse-hester-gardens\/curse-hester-gardens\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/curse-hester-gardens.webp?fit=808%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"808,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"curse-hester-gardens\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/curse-hester-gardens.webp?fit=689%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20567\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/curse-hester-gardens.webp?resize=236%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"cover of The Curse of Hester Gardens\" width=\"236\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/curse-hester-gardens.webp?resize=236%2C350&amp;ssl=1 236w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/curse-hester-gardens.webp?resize=689%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 689w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/curse-hester-gardens.webp?resize=768%2C1141&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/curse-hester-gardens.webp?w=808&amp;ssl=1 808w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 85vw, 236px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-curse-of-hester-gardens-tamika-thompson\/6c2ab6c7a8295649?ean=9781645663195&amp;next=t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>The Curse of Hester Gardens<\/em> by Tamika Thompson<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Erewhon Books (March 31, 2026)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?s=elizabeth+broadbent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elizabeth Broadbent<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tamika Thompson\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Curse of Hester Gardens<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an urgent novel. Set in the Michigan projects, it\u2019s a novel about gun violence, and if you suspect that makes for a rough emotional ride, you\u2019d be right. It\u2019s a novel about poverty, and it\u2019s a novel about racism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Curse of Hester Gardens <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a novel about America.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The book begins as Nona\u2019s son Marcus is graduating high school. Headed to the Ivy Leagues, he\u2019s finally leaving Hester Gardens, the projects that have already killed his older brother. Nona\u2019s husband is imprisoned; her middle schooler Lance is slipping away from her, and while she clings to her Christianity, she\u2019s also sliding into an emotional affair with her pastor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Hester Gardens is cursed, haunted by the souls who have been killed by violence, and it won\u2019t let superstar Marcus get away easily. After he gets in a fight at his own graduation party, Nona begins to suspect that something\u2019s wrong between him and gang member Peter, who may have had something to do with the death of her oldest son. She wonders if she\u2019s cursed, though her husband always brushed it off, saying that of course Black Americans are cursed by systems of oppression designed to keep them poor and disenfranchised. But Nona thinks there\u2019s more to it. As her life spirals out of control, she finds out which of them is correct.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a white American with a lower middle class upbringing, I was unfamiliar with the setting of this novel, and I found it one of the real strengths of this novel. Its setting is vivid and well-realized; for those of us who didn\u2019t grow up in an impoverished housing project, we\u2019ll find it immersive in a way that won\u2019t feel voyeuristic, and that\u2019s a true strength in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hester Gardens<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Thompson gives us music, scents, images &#8212; everything from popsicles dripping down chins to unjust landlord rules to fears of alleys to memories of check cashing places. It\u2019s the quotidian details of a place that make it real and vivid. You can\u2019t wear your good clothes on the bus. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God is good &#8212; all the time. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I opened this book as a stranger and walked away feeling like I knew this place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This setting is peopled with vivid, interesting, and relatable characters. Nona\u2019s loss of her son is gutting and visceral; the hope, strife, and dreams of Hester Gardens residents is palpable. You know these people: Nona, the grieving mother. The creepy\/desperate pastor who\u2019s both shady and also generous, the way Nona needs him and also doesn\u2019t need him. Mother Lincoln, the mother she needs and also resents. Peter, the child she loved and the teenager she loathes. Her son Lance, the child she yearns for and the young teen she no longer connects to and doesn\u2019t understand. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know them all.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lately, there\u2019s a lot of discourse online about how white readers \u201ccan\u2019t relate\u201d to Black characters. Which is a lot of nonsense &#8212; are they unempathetic or incurious? This is a novel that needs to be read, for a lot of reasons, but we\u2019ll start with that one. Thompson does character and emotion so well that you can\u2019t help but be moved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, this is an urgent novel because it tackles the plague of gun violence. Why is it our American curse? What kind of suffering does it cause? Why does it continue, and what can we do about it? Thompson has at least some answers to those questions, or as much as anyone can answer them. They hurt. They aren\u2019t easy to look at. Like all the best horror, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Curse of Hester Gardens <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a hard book to read for all the right reasons. An important novel, and a must-read. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson Erewhon Books (March 31, 2026) Reviewed by\u00a0Elizabeth Broadbent Tamika Thompson\u2019s The Curse of Hester Gardens is an urgent novel. Set in the Michigan projects, it\u2019s a novel about gun violence, and if you suspect that makes for a rough emotional ride, you\u2019d be right. 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