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Jul 03, 2017
Martha
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it was amazing
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I enjoyed this a lot, not just because it ticks a lot of my boxes (gangster-related, period piece, vaguely hard-boiled, aware of race), but because it ticks them well. The writing and characterizations possess a complexity that those who turn their noses up at 'genre fiction' don't believe exists in that world (because, you know, they've never looked), and the book's unflinching exploration of race -- told through the eyes of a mixed-race man so light he sometimes passes -- are well-observed, cu
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Jul 18, 2017
CoCo
marked it as to-read
Dec 14, 2018
gremlinkitten
marked it as to-read
