Note to Readers: Full post appears as a guest blog on Compulsion Reads!
I have been asked on several occasions why I, a white writer, feature
non-white protagonists in my two most recent novels (Puerto Rican Norma
Reyes in
The Floater and biracial Sonya Schoenberg in
Stage Daughter).
The question itself is rather telling. After all, real life is
multi-dimensional where race is concerned, so why would a novelist
“raise eyebrows” simply by creating fictional characters whose cultural
perspectives differ from her own? More at:
http://www.compulsionreads.com/blog/crossing-literature-life/