Amanda
A young woman disappears during a prestigious writing residency; a year later a true crime podcast inspires her sister to start her own investigation.
Honestly, the writing feels self-conscious to me and the layout of the podcast sections gimmicky. Tsamaase does make a number of astute observations about the commodification of African writers by publishers—and the inherent racism of it—but this book often reads more like one of the homogenized products of the system rather than a critique of it.
Received via NetGalley.
A young woman disappears during a prestigious writing residency; a year later a true crime podcast inspires her sister to start her own investigation.
Honestly, the writing feels self-conscious to me and the layout of the podcast sections gimmicky. Tsamaase does make a number of astute observations about the commodification of African writers by publishers—and the inherent racism of it—but this book often reads more like one of the homogenized products of the system rather than a critique of it.
Received via NetGalley.