Candace’s Reviews > Where the Crawdads Sing > Status Update

Normally I don’t update my progress as I’m reading a book or even leave reviews. I’d been enjoying the book so far until suddenly I read the book equivalent of nails on a chalkboard: the author describing characters as “and old black man” etc. So far, she hasn’t described characters as white so apparently we are to assume everyone is white unless otherwise stated. Now if that’s not implicit bias...