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Yay, you read it! And liked it, which is always good. (Is Napoli a POC herself? I can never remember. But the historical setting definitely felt real.)
I don't know about Napoli! I checked her webpage, and it doesn't seem like she is. But yeah, it felt like she had done a lot of research, and very specific research at that.
fandom's neglect of John Hersayapostle_of_erisAugust 3 2007, 07:41:38 UTC
I don't know why it took me so long to think of it, since it's something I complain about regularly, but have you read John Hersey? Yeah, the guy who's so mainstream that some of his stuff gets assigned in high school. He wrote science fiction and fantasy decades before "slipstream" blah blah, including a fascinating novel called White Lotus. It transposes American racism from white on black to yellow on white. The eponymous protagonist is a young girl in the American Southwest who is captured by slave raiders and shipped across the Pacific to be sols in China. Through a largish novel, the story follows most of her life. It's a long time since I read it, but I liked it a lot. I suggest taking a look when you run across a copy.
Ironically, I was looking up Beast by the same author (which I just reviewed for IBARW) to add to my GoodReads review list when I saw you'd reviewed this. I've been thinking about reading it, but was afraid it'd be too much of a downer. Nice review, and I think I'll check it out next time I'm at the library.
Hee, Napoli's stuff can be really depressing sometimes! Thankfully, this one wasn't. (I remember reading Spinners and feeling like I should just curl up and wither away.)
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He wrote science fiction and fantasy decades before "slipstream" blah blah, including a fascinating novel called White Lotus.
It transposes American racism from white on black to yellow on white. The eponymous protagonist is a young girl in the American Southwest who is captured by slave raiders and shipped across the Pacific to be sols in China. Through a largish novel, the story follows most of her life.
It's a long time since I read it, but I liked it a lot. I suggest taking a look when you run across a copy.
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