Pulitzer Prize winning author Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence, published in 2021, resonates as the tuning fork for the list of books I curated in response to January’s provocation to read a book that hinges on someone pretending to be something they’re not. Both The Sentence and Yellowface feature a white character who deliberately steals a racial trauma …
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