A review by tahlia1234
Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World, by Cole Brown

3.0

I don’t think I’ve been so confused by a book when I’ve finished reading it. I was so excited to read this memoir, but the reality was a weirdly structured bunch of essay-like chapters that didn’t make a lot of sense to me. There wasn’t any chronological order to follow, which made things hard to understand in the first place. The notes that I think were supposed to be funny rarely landed because I just didn’t understand them. I don’t even know what the main takeaways from this book are, the language used like ‘token’ and ‘grey boy’ were really poorly explained To be honest didn’t even make sense in how they were used most of the time. Overall, yes there are some nice stories and takeaways in the book, but I think there are way better memoirs to read on the subject of race and class.