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You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Lacey Lamar, Amber Ruffin

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twillspann's review against another edition

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5.0

HIlarious and amazing!

alicebme's review against another edition

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5.0

Loved hearing their voices. The descriptions of the pictures were hilarious. I appreciate hearing these stories, as they are a much needed reminder that racism is an everyday thing, possible at any time, with potential for violence and any and all irrational actions.

berlinbibliophile's review against another edition

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dark funny reflective medium-paced

3.0

Funny and depressing in equal measure, as long as you don't think about it too hard. Then it becomes just depressing.
It's a (relatively) light-hearted collection of stories, but I sometimes wished they'd focused a bit more on individual stories and left out some of the one-paragraph ones. But then again, those show how ever-present racism is.

katieinca's review against another edition

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5.0

The stories are awful, the telling of them is amazing. You can laugh and learn and be appalled all at the same time! Lacey's only a little older than I am, and Omaha's not that far from where I grew up, and this... yeah, this is the stuff I didn't see. I'm not as surprised by these stories now as I would have been when I was 18, but having them all given the face of Lacey and collected in this nonstop avalanche really paints a heck of a picture. Piles of thanks to Amber and Lacey for putting it all down on paper. I wish this book had existed when I was younger (and maybe been required reading in my high school).