Considering she’s written YA to date and this is about a girl going to college, it had to be hard to figure out how to pitch this so younger teens wouldn’t automatically pick it up, because wow, most of them should not.
Heh - I empathize with this thought, I picked up Ninth House in my *30s*, on the basis of "Six of Crows was great!" and wow, I was not prepared for the gore and horror.
who is experiencing Yale as an overwhelmingly white place which is pretty fucking weird in and of itself because elite educational institutions are really not overwhelmingly white these days
I think this varies depending on where you're coming from and the makeup of your social/academic circles on campus. IIRC, Alex is from LA, so I can see her finding Yale overwhelmingly white in comparison to the environment she grew up in, especially since she's hanging around rich legacy kids. My experience was that Yale felt overwhelmingly white, in comparison to where I grew up. E.g. I was the only undergrad POC in my entire department. There was one POC grad student, and all the faculty were white.
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Date: 2023-02-27 09:36 pm (UTC)Heh - I empathize with this thought, I picked up Ninth House in my *30s*, on the basis of "Six of Crows was great!" and wow, I was not prepared for the gore and horror.
I think this varies depending on where you're coming from and the makeup of your social/academic circles on campus. IIRC, Alex is from LA, so I can see her finding Yale overwhelmingly white in comparison to the environment she grew up in, especially since she's hanging around rich legacy kids. My experience was that Yale felt overwhelmingly white, in comparison to where I grew up. E.g. I was the only undergrad POC in my entire department. There was one POC grad student, and all the faculty were white.