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Listened to this while I was doing a long drive and kept having to pretend it didn’t feel like I was getting punched in the gut once a chapter. I’m woefully late to the party but shit, Tommy Orange can WRITE

Audiobooks got me fucked up cause I’ll listen for what feels like an hour and then it’s only been like 5% of the book

Dene’s description of being “ambiguously not white” hit me hard because I’ve experienced that SO much. I feel like people perceive me more as “ambiguously probably white,” but I genuinely can’t count the number of times I’ve been asked if I was “Mexican” and have been called anti-Asian slurs💀
I don’t look native enough to get called it, but I’m different enough to get asked.