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A review by libraryforspooky
We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride, Jo Piazza
4.0
"I don't know how I can sit down with your husband and eat burgers and act like everything is a-okay. It's so not okay. And the fact that you don't get that.."
It's difficult to bring up hard conversations with people you love. Jenny is a white woman who grew up alongside Riley, who is black. The book highlights hardships on both sides when a 14 year old boy who is black is shot by Jenny's husband. It also highlights white privilege up until the end, I'm still not completely sure that Jenny understood that. I think this book has a great concept to bring up hard conversations with people you love, but I didn't really feel the bond between Jenny or Riley at all.
Even in the flashbacks, they seemed oblivious to the other parties thinking. And sometimes envious. We're in an era where time is not regarded to the large factor in staying in toxic relationships. Jenny mentions that she's trying and she may say the wrong things - but in that same apology she mentioned that she doesn't think about the color of Riley since they're like sisters. She isn't acknowledging that in order for her to say that she doesn't think about color, she is providing claim of her white privilege.
Overall, I do like this book and would reread it, more to annotate and break down the book to study it. I gave it four stars as I wasn't a big fan of reading a paragraph in present to be presented with a flashback of the past in the next paragraph. It's not my cup of tea, but tea comes in variety.
It's difficult to bring up hard conversations with people you love. Jenny is a white woman who grew up alongside Riley, who is black. The book highlights hardships on both sides when a 14 year old boy who is black is shot by Jenny's husband. It also highlights white privilege up until the end, I'm still not completely sure that Jenny understood that. I think this book has a great concept to bring up hard conversations with people you love, but I didn't really feel the bond between Jenny or Riley at all.
Even in the flashbacks, they seemed oblivious to the other parties thinking. And sometimes envious. We're in an era where time is not regarded to the large factor in staying in toxic relationships. Jenny mentions that she's trying and she may say the wrong things - but in that same apology she mentioned that she doesn't think about the color of Riley since they're like sisters. She isn't acknowledging that in order for her to say that she doesn't think about color, she is providing claim of her white privilege.
Overall, I do like this book and would reread it, more to annotate and break down the book to study it. I gave it four stars as I wasn't a big fan of reading a paragraph in present to be presented with a flashback of the past in the next paragraph. It's not my cup of tea, but tea comes in variety.