A review by arimonts
Happily: A Personal History-With Fairy Tales by Sabrina Orah Mark

Did not finish book. Stopped at 55%.
i picked this up bc i love memoir, i’m a black jew, and I’m curious about how jewish folks are writing about raising black boys right now. I stopped bc while she acknowledges her husband and therefore her children’s blackness, about 40% of the way in, her husband’s daughter, who we can also assume is black, joins her household and all of a sudden this book is about a white woman who cannot stand her husband’s CHILD. bc let’s be honest, 18 or not, this is author is beefing with a black CHILD. she can understand how difficult it is to raise her black kids but has no empathy for the black SIBLINGS OF HER KIDS. i had to put it down. this book is white liberal women at their worst so far—all theory, all big thoughts, no praxis. would NOT suggest this to anyone.
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