Trumpet by Jackie Kay and Blood Rights by Mike Phillips

[sophinisba]

9. Trumpet by Jackie Kay, 1997

I loved this book a lot, probably more than anything else I've read so far this year. pigeonhed wrote a good review of it here. Jackie Kay does a really wonderful, subtle job of dealing with issues of gender, race, sexuality, class, and nationality interact in her characters' lives without ever taking you out of the story

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[browngirl]

On the second book: OY. Thank you for throwing yourself on that grenade for us reviewing it.

[sophinisba]

It was so wtf, Ayesha, they were seriously hanging her out the window. And then she told them everything they needed to know and the other woman was being raped while she was high on heroin so she was completely passive. D: (And I didn't get to see any more of the Argentine woman named Sophie.)