Status Updates From Olga Dies Dreaming

“…Olga began to notice that her clients were growing steadily richer while the people doing the work were getting compensated in exactly the same way.”

okay intro to sociology

also hasn’t olga been characterized as this smart, ivy-league-educated woman? and yet she’s having realizations that other BIPOC figure out during their frosh yr or before (just without the language to describe it)…i’m upset

“He understood that on the island, that ravaged strip of land, was the map back to the person he had lost sight of.”

…like I see what Gonzalez was trying to go for, but of context, this is giving the white saviorism she is trying to denounce.