Your face in mine

“Since I can't have you, I want to say, I have to become you.”

Race dysmorphia. Is there such a thing? Can one feel like the race they have been born into, is incorrect? What if you could change your race via surgery, would you? These are the questions that the author grapples with.

This is a deep and thought provoking novel. It was interesting to get inside the minds of those who feel like they are an imposter among people that visually/racially look like them. I was impressed that the author dealt with white privilege, so honestly.

“Look at any monocultural society. Privilege flees from itself. Whiteness flees from itself. Can't you see that's what I am doing?”

“Why would I choose that? Why would I step out of the circle of belonging, where I've always been? The gilded prison house of Whiteness, with its electric fences, its transparent walls? Being the most visible, therefore the most hated, of all? The one that can always condescend, not the one condescended to? Reader, doesn't the question answer itself?


I would recommend this book, highly!