Freedom Lessons: A Novel by Eileen Harrison Sanchez

I received this book through Netgalley in return for an honest review.

Segregation used to be something far away for me. Both literally - I'm Dutch, so the US is on the other side of the ocean - as figuratively - I am a white woman after all. Books like this help me realize that it is more than a history lesson. It was real, and in several ways is real even today, and everywhere, even if we used to take the moral high ground over the people in the past, or people in another country. As the writer mentions, it is not written by a black woman for black women. It is written by a white woman. It does point out how very much privileged I have been in my life though.

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