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Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir by Rebecca Carroll
5.0
Surviving the White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll
This is a breathtaking memoir. Carroll tells her story honestly and beautifully. Adopted into a white family, in a small all white town, Carroll has a confusing, hurtful and lonely upbringing as a biracial child. Following her through her teenage years to University and to various cities and jobs and relationships, she continues to be misguided and feel lost. She struggles to understand her Blackness and define her racial identity.
Her relationship with her birth mother is heartbreakingly damaging. I loved how she described her experiences with unconditional vs conditional love.
Rebecca is an incredibly talented writer. I really loved the language she used to describe people. Her writing immediately drew me in. Her explanations were straightforward and impossible to misinterpret. She did a phenomenal job explaining how racism slices and how, over time, it completely breaks down identity and self worth.
I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to read this memoir, Thank you to @netgalley and @simonandschuster for my advanced copy. Available on February 2nd, please go read this book.
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This is a breathtaking memoir. Carroll tells her story honestly and beautifully. Adopted into a white family, in a small all white town, Carroll has a confusing, hurtful and lonely upbringing as a biracial child. Following her through her teenage years to University and to various cities and jobs and relationships, she continues to be misguided and feel lost. She struggles to understand her Blackness and define her racial identity.
Her relationship with her birth mother is heartbreakingly damaging. I loved how she described her experiences with unconditional vs conditional love.
Rebecca is an incredibly talented writer. I really loved the language she used to describe people. Her writing immediately drew me in. Her explanations were straightforward and impossible to misinterpret. She did a phenomenal job explaining how racism slices and how, over time, it completely breaks down identity and self worth.
I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to read this memoir, Thank you to @netgalley and @simonandschuster for my advanced copy. Available on February 2nd, please go read this book.
#survivingthewhitegaze #rebeccacarroll #netgalley #kindle #ebooks #arc #readthis #reading #bookstagram #canadianbookstagrammer #loveofreading #memoir #bookrecommendations #bookreviews #fivestars #mybooks #books