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Mischief Makers
Raphael de Baptiste, a strong-willed, light-skinned Black woman, leaves her Detroit home and moves to Canada, where she marries a Chippewa Indian and raises three daughters who experience discrimination and assimilation when they move out into the world
163 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 1989
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June 5, 2026
Wanted to like this so much more than I did. TLDR is that the book is too rushed. She also oversimplifies/leans on racial stereotypes in a way that is kinda ? And then somehow all structural and interpersonal difference between characters is counteracted by excess eroticism. I love excess eroticism….which is why the book got finished…but it didn’t work as well as fish tales. Fish tales is discombobulating in the most incredible, energizing, and hallucinatory way and mischief makers loses some of that raw energy. In some ways, the book is like another country with more variables and less stakes. Fish tales is amazing.
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