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Task 21: Read a children’s book that centers a disabled character but not their disability
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last updated Sep 25, 2022 09:27AM
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I'm still struggling with all I learned from this book. Roxanne Gay said it best, "You think you know the history of racism and then a book like this reveals that it’s so much worse than you could have also imagined."
The people who need to read this book never will. It will live inside me forever, and it will fuel my voice. ...more
The people who need to read this book never will. It will live inside me forever, and it will fuel my voice. ...more
Book Riot Read Harder 2021: a book of investigative fiction by an author of color.
This book should be read by everyone. The concept of this book, that America has a caste system just as India and Nazi Germany, isn't a shock (I mean, *I* wasn't surprised at the premise...ick, how sad is that?), but reading the *how* this caste system has evolved and *continues* to persist is harrowing, to say the least. Minus one star for the author's writing style, which wasn't my bag, and that the American cast ...more
This book should be read by everyone. The concept of this book, that America has a caste system just as India and Nazi Germany, isn't a shock (I mean, *I* wasn't surprised at the premise...ick, how sad is that?), but reading the *how* this caste system has evolved and *continues* to persist is harrowing, to say the least. Minus one star for the author's writing style, which wasn't my bag, and that the American cast ...more
Nov 01, 2020
Julie
marked it as to-read
May 22, 2021
Kim
marked it as to-read
