I can’t recommend Malcolm and Me: A Novel by Robin Farmer more. As a reader, I’ve personally been looking for books that deal with racial prejudice, especially from a teenaged perspective, and this book does exactly that. “Young, gifted, black and Catholic,” Roberta Forest is (almost) all those things. The novel centers around Roberta’s grasp on life and specifically, her relationship with Catholicism and race. Set against the backdrop of Philadelphia in the 1970s, she questions her religion after her nun at school flings a racist insult at her. From that point on, Roberta begins to question everything else she thought she knew.
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