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A review by mishacoleman
Skinfolk: A Memoir by Matthew Pratt Guterl
1.75
Overall, I did not enjoy this book. I wanted something else out of it. More voices of color, I guess. But Guterl's adoptive siblings are awful quiet. That may simply be out of respect, not speaking for them, but I get a much stronger sense of his (white) parents. It ends up feeling kinda navel-gazy and white-guilty. When, as adults, his older Korean/white sister calls him on a racist pattern, he seems to shut down, thinking their relationship is over. The Guterl parents are rendered as 1970s idealistic liberals, committed to race blindness throughout. The siblings' reactions and identities are not available.