I’m not sure if I’ll finish this one. The occasional racial humor felt off, inauthentic, so I looked up the author - a white guy. While I could imagine a Black author maybe being self-deprecating for a white audience, from a white author this is just painful. We’ll see if I can continue to suspend my disbelief.
@otterlove@bookwyrm.social From doing a little bit of digging on this guy, I've learned that his wife is black (and I'm guessing Nigerian?). My guess is that she probably has influenced his writing,, because there are some things that feel just a little too... insider-knowledge to me, like how he includes a specific beer brand that's popular in Africa. I feel like someone who's not involved with a community at all wouldn't think to include that from just literature research, you know?
