A review by readingtheend
Members Only by Sameer Pandya

challenging medium-paced

2.0

  • very strong when teasing out the complexities of racism, microaggression, and the immigrant experience
  • I felt deeply uncomfortable about the fact that the Black couple to whom the MC says the racial slur have virtually no interiority. The story's about Raj, and the Black couple (especially the wife) are an afterthought.
  • Many things about this book were great but in the end it felt like the author hadn't fully considered the ramifications of writing a book about how a non-Black person feels about saying a racial slur to a Black couple.
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