Theres no gloomy foreshadowing of whats to come, no character detail to help make sense of the senseless.
This is a book interested in the intersection of race and class as it plays out in modern society.
The main characters are black and (mostly) professionally successful, and they dont typically encounter blatant racism.
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Their experiences, complex and provocative, feel urgently true.
The author thoughtfully reveals contemporary racial dynamics by letting authenticity lead the way.
She poses dilemmas, and we observe them play out as if shes plucked scenes directly from our day-to-day.
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The first tale, Belles Letters, is written in epistolary format between the two girls mothers.
Years later, I will be more informed but no better.
Thompson-Spires deftly handles even the trickiest of tone mixtures.
The power ofHeads of the Colored Peoplestems, ultimately, from its authors command.
Even atHeads most low-key, that shock is there, lingering.
