Bingo square: Underrepresented The Good Immigrant is a collection of essays by writers, actors, and journalists about what it’s like being a minority in the UK today. A UK which sees you as someone who isn’t to be trusted, unless you’re winning an Olympic medal or are a great footballer. I don’t read a lot of non-fiction, and if I do it’s seldom short essay collections, but I mostly enjoyed this one. There are some excellent essays here, my favourites include Kendo Nagasaki and Me […]
The Good Immigrant – or how I realized how racist I’ve been all my life
I just realized I finished this review without saying anything about the book, so I’m back with a short summary. This book groups together 21 essays from minority ethnic people in Britain today, talking about how their ethnicity impacts their every day life. Some of them are famous – actors, comedians, journalists, bloggers -, none of them were known to me. The essays are raw and real, and paint an incredible picture I believe everyone needs to see. And they caused me to reflect deeply […]