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Things are picking up!!! I’m loving the calmness and ease of this read. Especially given it’s my first time exploring historical fiction. At this point in the book, the characters are diverging and noticing how much wealth and status play a huge role in the others lives and I’m so excited to see where this goes. It did begin as a slow coming of age, female friendship read, but I like where it’s going now…

I hope it’s going where I think it is. Pecola going to extreme lengths to fit the standards of beauty she set for herself but obv came from how society “saw” her family (which was not at all).

Page 34 after she visits the shop is interesting. She’s so nervous and afraid to interact with this white man. And when she finally does, all the joy and excitement to eat her candy fades away, and affirms her insecur

Babes is this a biography or a manuscript? I wanna hear the actionnnn not ur childhood memories that truly don’t have too much to do with the title. I keep hoping these anecdotes tie back in but they’re just there 😭 shoot maybe I misinterpreted the type of book.

So far I relate so heavily to the author and her existence being from the Bronx and wanting nothing but to leave it!! I am excited to see what new feelings this book evokes in me as I still feel that push to experience “more” elsewhere.