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A review by in_and_out_of_the_stash
Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay by Kelly McWilliams
3.0
Another book with an angry teenager and a death in the family - what is going on with the books I am choosing?
There is so much going on with this book that is good - early on there is racial face blindness, which I happened to read on the same day as my adult son was called the wrong but stereotypical Hispanic name by a client. (Please, just say "sorry could you tell me your name again".) The reactions of white people to slavery - it wasn't all bad, which if everything you read is true will soon be taught in Florida schools.
But what was never explained was how the family could afford to buy the property and send their child to private school. The property next door is purchased by an actress - implication money - but the protagonist's father left a tenured position (which isn't a well paid path) to restore the plantation and it isn't mentioned what Mom did. And money isn't a worry in the book - so how?
There is so much going on with this book that is good - early on there is racial face blindness, which I happened to read on the same day as my adult son was called the wrong but stereotypical Hispanic name by a client. (Please, just say "sorry could you tell me your name again".) The reactions of white people to slavery - it wasn't all bad, which if everything you read is true will soon be taught in Florida schools.
But what was never explained was how the family could afford to buy the property and send their child to private school. The property next door is purchased by an actress - implication money - but the protagonist's father left a tenured position (which isn't a well paid path) to restore the plantation and it isn't mentioned what Mom did. And money isn't a worry in the book - so how?