{"id":5557,"date":"2010-02-28T03:12:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T03:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5557"},"modified":"2010-02-28T03:12:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T03:12:29","slug":"the-bluest-eye-review-of-the-girl-who-fell-from-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5557","title":{"rendered":"The Bluest Eye [Review of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/28\/books\/review\/Thomas-t.html?ref=books\" target=\"_blank\">The Bluest Eye [Review of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2010-02-25<\/p>\n<p><strong>Louisa Thomas<\/strong>, Contributing Editor<br \/>\n<em>Newsweek Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=577\" target=\"_blank\">The Girl Who Fell from the Sky<\/a><\/em>. By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heidiwdurrow.com\" target=\"_blank\">Heidi W. Durrow<\/a>. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2010. 264 pages. Cloth ISBN-13: 9781565126800)<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a reason many great social justice novels are written as historical fiction or contain elements of fantasy or allegory: This builds a certain crucial distance into their storytelling. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heidiwdurrow.com\" target=\"_blank\">Heidi W. Durrow<\/a> is the daughter of an \u00adAfrican-American serviceman and a white Danish mother, and her first novel was, according to her publisher, \u201cinspired by true events.\u201d On the face of it, the story of a biracial girl growing up in 1980s America, grappling with confusion over both her identity and a complicated, mysterious family history, couldn\u2019t be more timely or important. But in the moments when Durrow\u2019s novel seems to tackle its big themes most self-consciously \u2014 when it appears written for the Age of Obama \u2014 it can be predictable, even dull. <strong>It\u2019s when it approaches the questions of identity and community more subtly and indirectly that \u201cThe Girl Who Fell From the Sky\u201d can actually fly&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/28\/books\/review\/Thomas-t.html?ref=books\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bluest Eye [Review of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky] The New York Times 2010-02-25 Louisa Thomas, Contributing Editor Newsweek Magazine The Girl Who Fell from the Sky. By Heidi W. Durrow. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2010. 264 pages. Cloth ISBN-13: 9781565126800) There\u2019s a reason many great social justice novels are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,6],"tags":[64,2326,2327],"class_list":["post-5557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-new-media","tag-heidi-w-durrow","tag-louisa-thomas","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}