Review: Not sure what to do with this
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 27, 2012
So....is this a novel?  Is it a true story?  Not quite sure.  If it is a memoir, it is a sad commentary on race relations and completely clueless parents.  If it is a novel, it doesn't work.The teenager in the book is having identity issues due to her biracial heritage, and the parents pretty much let her go to some seriously extreme measures in order the "find" herself, which really isn't herself at all.As a biracial person myself, I get the identity crisis issues, believe me.  But instead of indulging this girl and letting her go to the lengths she does to avoid her "blackness" - including allowing the spoiled little brat to call her father a n*gger, her parents should have yanked her by her nappy braid and smacked some sense into her stupid self.Based on the story, I get how they didn't really stress to the girl that she had black heritage, but to live in such a ridiculous state of mind as to believe that the issue would "never come up", shows just HOW clueless the parents were.  And they should be slapped into reality themselves.In this short, rushed, lazily edited novella? memoir?, the young girl that is the subject of the story comes to grips with herself, eventually, but not before hitting the lowest of the most unecessary lows to get there.