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A review by bookishtropes
Deceptive Calm by Patricia Skipper
Did not finish book.
1.0
Was commissioned to read this by the OnlineBookClub and had to DNF.
I find it absolutely abhorrent that in the year 2022 of our Lord a white author was given any sort of platform to condone their use of the N-word at all, but especially so liberally. This was enough for me to put the book down and does not include all the other things other reviewers mentioned. There's absolutely no excuse for this and just reading the first few pages was absolutely unbearable. A white woman, no matter how much she's witnessed first-hand the effects of a segregated Jim Crow South, shouldn't be the authoring these stories in this way and it feels completely out of touch for one to romanticize even a fictional story of abuse and misogynoir towards a Black woman. I'm still beyond shocked at the blatant racism and audacity of it all. Two thousand and twenty-two. I'm so angry she has received any money at all from me for this.
For the record, white isn't supposed to be capitalized; Black is.
I find it absolutely abhorrent that in the year 2022 of our Lord a white author was given any sort of platform to condone their use of the N-word at all, but especially so liberally. This was enough for me to put the book down and does not include all the other things other reviewers mentioned. There's absolutely no excuse for this and just reading the first few pages was absolutely unbearable. A white woman, no matter how much she's witnessed first-hand the effects of a segregated Jim Crow South, shouldn't be the authoring these stories in this way and it feels completely out of touch for one to romanticize even a fictional story of abuse and misogynoir towards a Black woman. I'm still beyond shocked at the blatant racism and audacity of it all. Two thousand and twenty-two. I'm so angry she has received any money at all from me for this.
For the record, white isn't supposed to be capitalized; Black is.