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I like this series by Rhys Bowen. Molly Murphy, the main character, is ahead of her time: she is a private detective in 1903 New York City. She is engaged to and about to be married to Daniel Sullivan, a police officer who frowns on her detecting activities. However, when Molly gets bored sewing her trousseau and finds out that a young girl needs rescuing in the area of Chinatown, she makes the decision to go ahead and try to rescue her. Needless to say, things get very complicated, and Molly ba
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In historical fiction with white protagonists I think there's a fine line between "accurately depicting how racism functioned at that time, with a critical lens" and "writing racism in such a way that simply reproduces racist ideas." I actually *do* think it's possible to do the former. This book, while far from the most egregious example of the latter that I've read, does not do the former.
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Nov 27, 2019
Megan
marked it as to-read
