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A review by smalltownbookmom
This Little Light by Lori Lansens
4.0
Some really great moments and insights in this book (especially from a teen narrator). Lori Lansens writes so beautifully. This was a different style for her but she carried it off really well. Would recommend.
A couple favourite insightful quotes:
“Is it okay to describe a person’s skin color in any way, shape or form when you yourself are not a person of color? Or is it better not to mention a person’s skin color so as to make it irrelevant, even though we all know it’s totally relevant, in hopes that society will eventually become truly color-blind?”
“The thing is, I don’t want to be a dick. The racism thing? The white privilege thing? The white feminist thing? I want to understand it all, and acknowledge it beyond the obvious, and I actually want to get this shit right. Feels like there’s a wide margin of error though.”
A couple favourite insightful quotes:
“Is it okay to describe a person’s skin color in any way, shape or form when you yourself are not a person of color? Or is it better not to mention a person’s skin color so as to make it irrelevant, even though we all know it’s totally relevant, in hopes that society will eventually become truly color-blind?”
“The thing is, I don’t want to be a dick. The racism thing? The white privilege thing? The white feminist thing? I want to understand it all, and acknowledge it beyond the obvious, and I actually want to get this shit right. Feels like there’s a wide margin of error though.”