When No One is Watching

I finished this book this morning, still sort of sleepless from nightmares last night and crying about the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. With the big reveal of the fact that a group of high powered white people had been kidnapping Black people to steal their home and do medical experiments on them it seemed laughable at first. Yes, this is fiction but is it really believable?

But that's my privilege to forget (willingly? perhaps) that things like this, even if not altogether at the same time, have happened in the U.S. and still happen now. Hysterectomies are being performed on migrant women without their consent, unscrupulous real estate firms and fraudsters work to take homes from disenfranchised communities, redlining, medical experimentation. It goes on and on.