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I think I’ve been crying for two chapters straight. Like tears streaming down my face, I feel like I’m gonna choke and drown on them. Then somehow I get more devastated because I realized the author passed in 2023– and I have no way to thank her for her brilliance. Some lines have been more kind and embracing than any other presence in my life.

siblings are so complicated but my god do i want to strangle skylar

chapter 14: professor laymon speaking about having to mentor a white student who has the power to “not be poor or a felon.” how teaching that student only codified and enshrined his whiteness. that laymon needed to labor to make the white kid a little more human, referring the historicity of this dynamic