No Shame In Her Game
I'm in a conundrum about this book. This book is set in a purely made up world where most of the people haven't seen people of different races. They know they exist but don't seem to have much interaction with them. It's not placed in current day or have anything really to do with our reality. Yet the main character of this story is a black woman and the author is white. To me there doesn't seem to be a disrespectful feel to the story since her being black doesn't really affect the story. It's definitely something that is brought up but it's not like...a main plot point. Hence my issue since as a POC myself, I want to see black authors succeed writing stories that feel authentic. If we ok people who aren't POC to write books with POC main characters will that super saturate the genre with unauthentic stories? Therein lies my problem. I still enjoyed this book but it could definitely be problematic. With that being said let's get...