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Apr 15, 2021
Reading this book as a white passing person of color has been extremely inspiring. It is like mixed people have a switch for how they act around their black families, and then how they act in public towards white people. And when the two sisters in this book choose different identities, it is shocking to readers how different their lives turn out, but it isn't that shocking to American black people today. The country can have at times almost an air of segregation that carries on from the time period in the book. But I really enjoyed how the book describes aspects of happiness in both lives of the sisters; it was touching.