In a lot of recent novels about cross-cultural/racial adoption and other very similar/adjacent topics, there’s been some good novels that have rough edges and underdevelopment of characters. What often happens in these novels is that the well-meaning white people (usually white lady) gets in over her head or over simplifies the world or is naive and destructive. I know that plenty of white people are like this and do these things, so I won’t set out to defend them or anything like that. But a […]