A review by atlanticgiantpumpkin
The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

Did not finish book. Stopped at 6%.

Hard pass. There is an extremely graphic

sexual assault scene in which an older black girl assaults Beth, who is 8, and then cusses her out in the morning, calling her the “ugliest white girl she’s ever seen.”

Considering this was written by a white man, the amount of detail and description he put into that scene, and also making one of (if not the only) black girl in his book a huge stereotype, it feels gross and predatory and racist. Nobody needed details on what happened in that scene.