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(white) friends kept recommending Horse by #GeraldineBrooks so I put a hold & then listened to it on my library app. Part way through I suspected I was reading Black characters written by a white woman and this Atlantic review gets at some of the ways in which that sucks. Sadly the first set of reviews I googled in NYT, WaPo, and Atlantic are all also written by white women. #Bookstodon #BooksofMastodon
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/07/geraldine-brooks-horse-book-review/638449/
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(white) friends kept recommending Horse by #GeraldineBrooks so I put a hold & then listened to it on my library app. Part way through I suspected I was reading Black characters written by a white woman and this Atlantic review gets at some of the ways in which that sucks. Sadly the first set of reviews I googled in NYT, WaPo, and Atlantic are all also written by white women. #Bookstodon #BooksofMastodon
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/07/geraldine-brooks-horse-book-review/638449/
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@chaostheorie @bookstodon
Thanks for the review. #GeraldineBrooks does a spectacular job with #HistoricalFiction! From another author, I'd be much more concerned about a white writer featuring main characters who are Black. However, her stories cut a very wide swath and I'm certain that she's researched the era very carefully. -
@chaostheorie @bookstodon
Thanks for the review. #GeraldineBrooks does a spectacular job with #HistoricalFiction! From another author, I'd be much more concerned about a white writer featuring main characters who are Black. However, her stories cut a very wide swath and I'm certain that she's researched the era very carefully.
