Jamies’s Reviews > Man of the House: A Novel > Status Update

At this point I can firmly state that I won't be reading anymore of Ad Hudler's books. Non black people should not be comfortable saying the n-word like Lincoln is with anyone. He's done so in an email to Violet's school but I can dismiss that as him make a point. Once to the teacher he wrote the email to and just now at Hooters talking to Rod. Its horrible.

Linc is upset his wife wanted him to attend a party she planned; its for adults. You would think the man would try to make friends aside from people he has to pay for remodeling.

"Illegal latino immigrants who can't read the road signs because they don't speak English."

1. Sounding real racist but let's assume he's not
2. You can read a language and understand just fine without being able to speak it.

Lincoln should have had an honest talk with Jo about what he wants to do at home way before now. Littlw changes can happen with no discussion but he's really going down the rabbit hole and expects her to not wonder what is going on with all these changes.

I've noticed this author draws on important civil rights and black historical figures to try to make points and it really comes off as inappropriate. The opinion about Harper Lee's book is one thing that screams "white privilege" and Violet thinking the MLK dream speech applies to a soda situation is very downgrading.

Okay so we're on psycho level now.

This section feels like its trying to be special or groundbreaking thought but it comes off as "they still don't know how handle their roles in the home after more than a decade".

Maybe in some parts of the country people still say "wiggers" but that mess stopped in the midwest back in the early 2000s at the latest because its literally the combination of white and the n-word with the r. All acknowledged that n-word with the r is racist and hateful language. Please tell me this stops here.

TF kinda email did I just read?