I believed readers only wanted trauma stories from writers of colour. Then I became an author | Zoya Patel
Mar 18, 2023
3 minutes
I can’t pinpoint exactly when I started imagining myself in the stories I read, but I know it was at a young age. Some of the first books I really connected with were Sweet Valley Twins, an American series about blonde, blue-eyed twin sisters who lived a very middle-class, white life I could barely picture. I knew on some level that I wouldn’t exist in their community, where there was no suggestion of cultural diversity. But I wanted to, so in my daydreams about the twins and their
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