A review by destdest
Dreamer by Akim Aliu, Greg Anderson Elysée

emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.0

Good memoir! Akim breaks the fourth wall often to give added information, and, while distracting, it doesn’t break the flow of the story. 

As I get older, I start feeling wearier of the (true) stories of black and mixed raced people having to continually put up with, endure, and survive virulent racism. No one should be having to put up with this type of garbage!  

I do have to side-eye the portrayal of one of the two visibly black women in this book. I don’t doubt that event happened, but the optics of media in general always portraying black women as bitter and jealous gets old. 

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