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charliedezeeuw 's review for:
The Other Black Girl
by Zakiya Dalila Harris
So much potential- unexploited.
This had the list of ingredients to entice, surprise and win me over. I really looked forward to this bad boy. I was left unsatisfied.
This book has beautiful components of black culture. The power, the grievance and injustice, hair care, music and community. I did learn new things about black hair and the faces of racism I hadn’t considered previously.
The characters are round and have their personal drives, motivations and aches. I did not care for Nella so much, as I did for her best friend. She seemed more comfortable within herself and this was a beautiful thing to see worked out on paper.
The twist of the story, whilst keeping it as vague as can be, is peculiar. It suggests it can change the way your brain works by chemicals applied to your body. This was unbelievable to me, though a wonderfully creepy concept. Nella being sold by it so quickly, after weeks of pushing off racism and injustice, was a major anti climax. I wanted to see her inner drive, though perhaps this is a white expectation put on a black woman, as the story often attempts to to explain us is an expectancy of black women. I probably do not have the understanding of racism suffering enough to judge.
I just felt there was a lot of lead-up to the twist, which then felt unfulfilling.
Besides this, I followed barely anything of the case of Keandra. There were so many names and since this whole case is explained before you know of the hair product adjusting black woman’s attitudes and consciousness, I did not understand a word of what went down in Wagner’s history.
This had the list of ingredients to entice, surprise and win me over. I really looked forward to this bad boy. I was left unsatisfied.
This book has beautiful components of black culture. The power, the grievance and injustice, hair care, music and community. I did learn new things about black hair and the faces of racism I hadn’t considered previously.
The characters are round and have their personal drives, motivations and aches. I did not care for Nella so much, as I did for her best friend. She seemed more comfortable within herself and this was a beautiful thing to see worked out on paper.
The twist of the story, whilst keeping it as vague as can be, is peculiar. It suggests it can change the way your brain works by chemicals applied to your body. This was unbelievable to me, though a wonderfully creepy concept. Nella being sold by it so quickly, after weeks of pushing off racism and injustice, was a major anti climax. I wanted to see her inner drive, though perhaps this is a white expectation put on a black woman, as the story often attempts to to explain us is an expectancy of black women. I probably do not have the understanding of racism suffering enough to judge.
I just felt there was a lot of lead-up to the twist, which then felt unfulfilling.
Besides this, I followed barely anything of the case of Keandra. There were so many names and since this whole case is explained before you know of the hair product adjusting black woman’s attitudes and consciousness, I did not understand a word of what went down in Wagner’s history.