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A review by yuneebi
Black, White, Other: In Search of Nina Armstrong by Joan Steinau Lester
1.0
Disclosure: Received a digital ARC from NetGalley for an honest review. No spoilers.
I tried I honestly did but I didn't finish this book. This book was so bad from the very beginning I'm honestly surprised I got very far into it. As a biracial teen I was excited to read this book hoping the author would convey how mixed kids feel, she didn't.
What I got from this book is a whiny teenager who doesn't understand a goddamn thing about the world and wants everything to be just like they were when she was a child. News flash honey, things change in life and you gotta learn to deal with it. Honestly, this character disturbed me. The way she talked about black people you would've thought she had never seen one much less be one. I'm so angry about this book because that's not an accurate depiction of a mixed person, honestly Nina sounded like a white girl who couldn't cope with all the black people around her but wasn't outwardly racist toward them like her "friends". This author clearly has no idea what it means to be mixed in this world and it upsets me greatly that this is how she believes it to be.
I'm just so sorry I ever read this book it was just so bad.
I tried I honestly did but I didn't finish this book. This book was so bad from the very beginning I'm honestly surprised I got very far into it. As a biracial teen I was excited to read this book hoping the author would convey how mixed kids feel, she didn't.
What I got from this book is a whiny teenager who doesn't understand a goddamn thing about the world and wants everything to be just like they were when she was a child. News flash honey, things change in life and you gotta learn to deal with it. Honestly, this character disturbed me. The way she talked about black people you would've thought she had never seen one much less be one. I'm so angry about this book because that's not an accurate depiction of a mixed person, honestly Nina sounded like a white girl who couldn't cope with all the black people around her but wasn't outwardly racist toward them like her "friends". This author clearly has no idea what it means to be mixed in this world and it upsets me greatly that this is how she believes it to be.
I'm just so sorry I ever read this book it was just so bad.