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athompson10
Aug 15, 2015athompson10 rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
A "this is how it could have happened" fictionalization of the Tawana Brawley case. The story is told from several different points of view, the most compelling and disturbing being those of "Sybilla Frye"'s mother and stepfather, both products of urban poverty and violence and both deeply scarred as a result. As a white writer who often depicts African-American characters, JCO should know better than to describe their hair as stiff, oily, coarse, smelly, matted, etc. but she does that throughout the book. A small matter, but as an A-A woman, I find them a very jarring and racist set of terms that just keep popping up.