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A powerful story on the impact of slavery on one family, Roots has moments of tenderness and joy as well as terror and heartbreak. Haley is at his strongest when repeatedly demonstrating the horror of suddenly never seeing your loved ones again or ever knowing what happened to them. He balances the episodes of sudden violence and brutality with extended periods of quotidian life and relatively good fortune. His primary characters are vivid and memorable. However, he spends far too long idealizing 18th century rural Africa, goes into excessive detail regarding cockfighting, and intersperses historical context in a clunky fashion.