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Family names were not things to be dropped and replaced at whim, he thought. They marked lineage; they marked belonging.
“...their gym-trained asses pushing against the fabric of their trousers as they move purposefully down the street.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
“Still, something did not seem right, and Robin could tell from Victoire’s and Ramy’s faces that they thought so too. It took him a moment to realize what it was that grated on him, and when he did, it would bother him constantly, now and thereafter; it would seem a great paradox, the fact that after everything they had told Letty, all the pain they had shared, she was the one who needed comfort.”
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“Family names were not things to be dropped and replaced at whim, he thought. They marked lineage; they marked belonging.”
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“Robin wondered then how much of Anthony’s life had been spent carefully translating himself to white people, how much of his genial, affable polish was an artful construction to fit a particular idea of a Black man in white England and to afford himself maximum access within an institution like Babel. And he wondered if there would ever be a day that came when all this was unnecessary, when white people would look at him and Anthony and simply listen, when their words would have worth and value because they were uttered, when they would not have to hide who they were, when they wouldn’t have to go through endless distortions just to be understood.”
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Aaron’s 2025 Year in Books
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