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I originally skipped Akwaeke Emezi’s YOU Created A FOOL OF Dying With the Splendor (Atria, 278 pp., $27) since I thought it had been more women’s fiction than romance — a oversight I regret, and which I’m thrilled to proper now. Widows can be a stock character in romance, but almost never is definitely the knowledge treated with these kinds

A non-racist book might have racist figures, and many of the characters in this book are racist. Could be the book itself necessarily racist? Sure. It's got an omniscient narrator, and lots of prolonged, racist passages which have been Evidently not from any character's perspective. They come to feel similar to the nonfiction interludes in War & Pe