Hello my lovely readers!
Sigh. Another day, another Black modern fiction book explaining how to be Black to a white audience. Let's get this over with!
SUMMARY
Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they're still close and even consider themselves sisters, although their lives have taken different directions. Jen, who is white, is married and finally pregnant. Riley, who is Black, has pursued her childhood dream of becoming a TV journalist.
But their friendship is tested when Jen's husband, a city police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager.
MY THOUGHTS
Okay. I'm getting REAL tired of these novels by Black women following the same formula: Black main character is super pro-Black and makes fun of white people yet has a white boyfriend or husband, dying or near death grandmother who is full of wisdom, preaches about the plight of Black people through current events and then finally comes to self-realization at the close of the book.
It's the same formula EVERY TIME. It's all so preachy and these books are becoming more and more like lessons for what Black people go through rather than an enjoyable read that is just about Black people.
This would be a good choice for a book club, because that's exactly who and what it was written for. The talking points were so obvious throughout this book.
I wanted this book to go deeper than it did, but it was just surface level and read as a bulleted list of "How Not to Be Racist in 2021" (or whenever this book was written).
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