Time to go back and reread that one, to - if only to see what it was that made such a strong impression. Political views should be in the context of the story or in blogs, but when they are linked through the fourth wall in a book, they somehow carry greater gravity. I was almost certainly over-sensitive at the time I read the commentary, but it did cement a powerful lesson in my mind. I haven't picked up a Tiger and Del book since, which is terribly unfair to Roberson. I read plenty of authors with whom I disagree politically or civilly, but I remember feeling like I had been personally singled out as bigoted. I did want to say that I really soured on the author when I made the mistake of reading her political views in one of the authors notes. The story of Tiger and Del was so riveting. amaria jones was dancing with her mom in their living room that evening in the austin neighborhood of chicago. The world that Roberson created was so vivid for me, the rhythm so magical. I read Sword Dancer (an much of the rest of the series) when it first came out and can't believe I left it off my list.
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