trope: Racism: business as usual

If you’re lucky enough to see a person of colour in any of these books, they’ll be stereotyped to the hilt.

The Stranger by Caroline B. Cooney

Recap #40: The Stranger by Caroline B Cooney

Dove recaps The Stranger by Caroline B Cooney, which turns out to be an unexpected joy. It is basically Twilight, except the Bella character is not an energy-sucking void, and the Edward character is cursed with an *actual curse*, rather than “tragically attractive and awfully good at everything he does”.

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