A review by pantehnreads
We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America by

4.0

This book is 15 stories about passing, but not in the way I thought it would be. I assumed it would be 197 pages of light-skin and white passing tears. Instead they are are personal essays from all types of people that pass in different ways. Racial passing, cis-passing, straight passing, class/economic passing and more. They are all very personal and well written essays on things the essayist has experiences. All in all I enjoyed this book, but as with all anthologies some stories are better than others. Still, I learned a lot about "passing" and how it does not just have one look.