A review by evamadera1
How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood by Jim Grimsley

informative fast-paced

3.0

While Grimsley has beautiful prose, ultimately this memoir felt rather self-aggrandizing in large part because he spends a lot of time talking about how ingrained racism was in his upbringing but also how it never really affected him as much as others perhaps because of his queer identity. This book had lots of promise with a lack of payoff.