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Monique Ejenuko asked this question about The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer, #1):
Just curious. Why would an Asian author write about white characters?
laurannolivia for a multitude of reasons. One, maybe because she wasn't comfortable with writing a POC character because it might get turned into a race book and ma…morefor a multitude of reasons. One, maybe because she wasn't comfortable with writing a POC character because it might get turned into a race book and majority of books follow white characters like by default. Or two, that's just the race of the character she was writing about at the time and she actually didn't give a fuck about race.

Idk. We can sit and speculate all we want, but it's best to either ask the author herself or move on. (less)
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