bestdressedbookworm 's review for:

Don't Cry for Me by Daniel Black
3.0

I really loved the idea of this, and I thought the insights into racial behaviour and treatment when you’re also dealing with a queer child in that community and within that era were well described and so moving. However the information given felt like sometimes “you just wouldn’t tell your child that”. He didn’t need to know certain things that I feel were meant for the audience rather than the person the letters were written too, which means without the second POV, this just felt long and sometimes a bit inappropriate. I think the author needed to decide if the letters were for the Son, or for the audience.