This is my first Jodi Picoult book, and man what a book it is. It's a great look at our current society and all the racism and white privilege that is deeply embedded throughout. The white supremacists made me sick, and I cringed during a lot of the defender's ignorant white savior and selfish moments.

However, it really bothered me throughout the book that a privileged white author was writing about racism, including a woman of color point of view. Then, I made it past the unnecessary epilogue and read the author's note where she fully acknowledges her own privilege and the issue of writing about an experience she will never live or fully understand as a white woman. She goes on to explain that she wrote the book for a white audience, who also will never truly know how it really is living Black in America, and that is exactly why they should read this book in addition to #ownvoices books.