MixedWashington Independent Review of BooksThese characters encompass a range of ages, genders, and sexualities, but curiously missing are any identifiers of race or class. It seems that everyone is a middle-class white. How strange it is to explore the edges of identity but fail to explicitly include any characters of color, any poor characters, or any disabled characters, especially when it’s queer people with these intersecting identities who are usually the ones pushing hardest on the boundaries and demanding that the larger society see and accept them ... I don’t personally know the details of author Corinne Manning’s background, so it is possible they intentionally chose to write what they know, which is commendable in an era where publishing is still filled with poorly handled books by white authors about people of color. Still, by leaving out this entire portion of the queer world, the author winds up examining a very narrowly defined version of the queer existence.
