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Storyteller. Immigrant 🇭🇹. Global African. Up next, STAR CHILD: A BIOGRAPHICAL CONSTELLATION OF OCTAVIA ESTELLE BUTLER, @marvel's OKOYE TO THE PEOPLE.

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    1. Ibi Zoboi‏Verified account @ibizoboi 22 Sep 2018

      This is an insulting review from a major publication (@WSJ) by a very problematic reviewer, Meghan Cox Gurdon. So I’d like to review her review as an example of the “classical narrative tact” she was looking for in my book.pic.twitter.com/XjQFjsafR9

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    2. Ibi Zoboi‏Verified account @ibizoboi 22 Sep 2018

      The first indication that this review has not gone through any sort fact-checking protocol is its inaccurate use of the word “Afro-Caribbean”. Nowhere in the novel are any of the characters referred to as Afro-Caribbean.

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    3. Ibi Zoboi‏Verified account @ibizoboi 22 Sep 2018

      The reviewer has intentionally erased & undermined the descriptor “Afro-Latin” despite it being on the flap copy & despite its pervasive use in the media, including @WSJ.

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    4. Ibi Zoboi‏Verified account @ibizoboi 22 Sep 2018

      She uses of the word “animus” to describe the young character’s concerns for her changing community. This reveals the reviewer’s marrow-deep bigotry & a limited understanding of the valid anger & frustrations of marginalized children.

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    5. Ibi Zoboi‏Verified account @ibizoboi 22 Sep 2018

      She fails to elaborate on her definition of “literary formality” nor does she indicate exactly who has described a novel as ever having “classical narrative tact”. She may have been expecting the archaic language in Regency-era novels, or the Queen’s English itself.

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      Ibi Zoboi‏Verified account @ibizoboi 22 Sep 2018

      The reviewer quotes a few lines of AAVE to falsely highlight the novel’s presumed intellectual inferiority. Clearly, she has a limited understanding of metaphor, wordplay, & the overall verbal ingenuity that Black children bring to the English language.

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        2. Ibi Zoboi‏Verified account @ibizoboi 22 Sep 2018

          Her heavy use of delusional intellectual superiority will undoubtedly amuse & validate those readers ages colonial to white supremacist who use it themselves, but it may otherwise limit the review's appeal.

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        3. Ibi Zoboi‏Verified account @ibizoboi 22 Sep 2018

          No, I absolutely will not be commenting on all reviews. But when you bring "those readers" into a review, you're talking about our children, many of whom are forced to bend & minimize their inherit genius to fit your idea of intelligence.

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        1. M.‏ @MadintheUS 22 Sep 2018
          Replying to @ibizoboi

          She's a moron, I was taught not to judge AAVE way back in college, that it has rules to it and is the perfect capsule view of language evolution. And that was almost 20 years ago. Plus, *HER* writing was such a failure in the review that I bought the book, it sounds great!pic.twitter.com/VbLZYnTUXC

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        1. 43BlueDoors -Bonnie‏ @43BlueDoors 22 Sep 2018
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          The quotes she chose to use actually made me want to read the book. It’s sounds like a book with strong culture narrative it sounds intriguing. The review seems narrow minded, maybe she has never stepped out her own front door.

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        1. Steve Price‏ @Steve_R_Price 22 Sep 2018
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          👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼, yes.

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        1. littleamers‏ @littleamers 22 Sep 2018
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          Yeah. I'm 41, white, and middle class, and the few quoted lines of AAVE made perfect sense to me! How out of touch must she be for any of those lines to put her off or think that others would be? Anyhow, looking forward to reading your book myself!

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        1. Genelle Levy‏ @GenelleL 23 Sep 2018
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          Wow, this reviewer clearly isn’t aware of the rich literary history of black dialect, folk & colloquial language. Her implication that the way black children speak is unsophisticated is such a racist sentiment. Has she ever read Zora Neale Hurston?

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