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    A Year in Reading: Matthew Klam

    by Matthew Klam Dec 07, 2017 2 minutes

    by , is brutally honest and at times quite funny, and speaks about race in a way that’s new, in the form of a half-crazed, biracial runaway bride story. We meet the young couple, Maria and Khalil, as undergrads at Stanford. “We’re like a movie, with melanin,” Khalil. Khalil ends up getting so in touch with his blackness that it nauseates Maria, so she prank calls him, trying to sound like the KKK: “We’re gonna string you up and light you on fire.” But he doesn’t recognize her voice, and her plan backfires when he takes the threat so seriously that he becomes an ardent, tiresome political activist.

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