04. A book with an interracial relationship

[Andrea]

I read the classic A Passage to India by E.M. Forster for this prompt.

[NancyJ]

I read The Woman in the White Kimono for a Japan theme. I really enjoyed it and it fits this prompt perfectly.

[Hannah]

I read The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell, a multi-generational family saga that reminded me a lot of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Midnight's Children. It's set in Zambia and follows three families through several generations, who eventually intertwine. It features several significant interracial relationships: the families/family in question is a mix of British, Italian, Zambian, and Indian, and the experiences of the characters who are in interracial relationships and their mixed race children are very important to the plot.

I recommended a few earlier in the thread, but since then I also read Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid, in which the main character's interracial relationship is a big part of the plot.

[Dana]

I just finished The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon and gave it 4.5 stars!

Such an amazing story. Not perfect, but it was gorgeous and it had such a great ending!

Totally recommend.

[Marie (UK)]

The Unspoken

A girl who goes missing (white American) and later her boyfriend and father to her as yet unborn babies is killed

[NancyJ]

For Round 2, I read Horse: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks. I highly recommend it,

[Betty]

I was struggling with this. I'm going through allot right now, so I wanted something that would be light and entertaining, but, frankly, wouldn't require much focus. I remembered an author I've read in the past, Miranda James (that's a penname, it's really a male author but I don't remember his name-whatever). Miranda writes a series of cozy mysteries about a white librarian whose acquaintances have a bad habit of getting murdered. He has a somewhat complicated relationship with his small town's police detective, who happens to be black. The detective also has a rather complicated relationship with her mother, who happens to be the librarian's housekeeper. I'm going with a book from this series-the relationships are discussed but not the main point of the book, and that should work, at least for me.

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I read Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art for this one - it turns out we probably all have some neanderthal blood in us! 5 stars.

[Ana O. ⭐]

Saga, Volume 2 4 Stars.

[Pam]

I read Demon Copperhead. There is an interracial couple, who work in the high school, who play an important role in Demon's life.

[Denise]

I just finished Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman which features the best friendship/possibly lovers relationship between 2 teen girls, one Anglo and one Pakistani. It can also be used for the summer prompts Pride or Coming of age.

Edited: I also read the following books that could be used for this prompt but I chose to put them elsewhere:
Heart and Hand (western)
Peach Blossom Spring (debut)
The Perfumer of Paris (2023)
Fifty Words For Rain (pride)
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (4+colors)

[Jill]

What are you reading for this prompt?
I read Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler

A great book and I would definitely recommend it.

[Pearl]

I read Crying in H Mart.

[Anne]

I am reading Return to the Olive Farm by Carol Drinkwater. I can recommend To kill a Mockinbird by Harper Lee.

[Anastasia]

The Reading List - the characters are of different ethnic backgrounds, age groups and religions. They bond over a mysterious reading list.

[Book Concierge]

I went quite outside the box ... inter-species (even interplanatary)


The Night Masquerade – Nnedi Okorafor – 3.5***
The final book in the Binti trilogy, has Binti trying to broker peace between the Meduse and the Khoush. I really marvel at the world-building that Okorafor has achieved here. The imaginative alien species are a marvel. And because I had come to trust her writing, I went with the flow and didn’t question the abilities of Okwu or New Fish. I really like Binti, and since the ending is somewhat of a cliffhanger, I have to wonder if the trilogy is really over, or if Okorafor will write more about Binti.
LINK to my full review

[Tracy]

I just finished Never Meant to Meet You by Alli Frank and Asha Youmans.

Both the authors and the main characters have interracial friendships. One is Black and the other is white and Jewish.

I enjoyed how that variation was handled in this book. It was not shied away from, but it also wasn't the main point of the book. Each character learned about the other's culture, but it was done naturally during the course of the story/relationship. No, "so, tell me what it's like to be Jewish/Black".

[Wendy]

Just finished A Passage to India by E. M. Forster, and it was fantastic -- not at all what I expected. There are many interracial relationships in this book, which concerns itself with the fraught situation between the Britain and Colonial India in the 1920s. Aziz, the central Indian character, befriends an old British woman, her younger female companion, and a cynical British schoolmaster who's gone a bit "native", as the adage goes. Theses characters tentatively try to make friends, but little cultural faux pas become veritable hurricanes despite the good intentions of some.

[Amanda]

For this prompt I read "A gentlemans guide to vice and virtue" by Mackenzi Lee