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A review by amandasbrews
Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen
5.0
Validating, heartwarming, sweet, honest, romantic, light, fun
Lunar Love is a book I’ve been excited about since the moment I knew it was coming out. If you know me at all you know that I’m a big advocate for better mixed race representation in media because it’s personal to me. It’s far too often that our stories are written by someone else and our mixed identity is used as a tool for the author to make some comment about race.
To them, sometimes we are used as proof that racism no longer exists and sometimes we are said to be abominations or freaks of nature for just existing. But it’s far more rare and far more special when someone who understands that we are just people doing our best when the world pushes such contradictory expectations onto us. Someone like Lauren.
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Lunar Love is a book I’ve been excited about since the moment I knew it was coming out. If you know me at all you know that I’m a big advocate for better mixed race representation in media because it’s personal to me. It’s far too often that our stories are written by someone else and our mixed identity is used as a tool for the author to make some comment about race.
To them, sometimes we are used as proof that racism no longer exists and sometimes we are said to be abominations or freaks of nature for just existing. But it’s far more rare and far more special when someone who understands that we are just people doing our best when the world pushes such contradictory expectations onto us. Someone like Lauren.
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