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Originally Posted by Little32
Yet another example of the co-opting of the stories of marginalized people for personal gain. The book was probably only remarkable in that she is an ostensibly white woman; if not, why not market it as fiction.
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that was my second thought. but then i guess people would have slammed her for "writing on what she heard than what she knew." i guess for her, writing it as a memoir gave her more legitimacy.
but shame on NYT for not fact checking. or her publishing company.