Unveiling Hidden Truths: A Sister’s Raw Journey Through the Brother Epistles
It’s a strength that McManus needs to navigate an American society still riven by racism. In a bitter irony, she tells Monir about the ongoing epidemic of violence against Black men, the very act of sharing these stories serving as an important reminder of the humanity behind the dispiriting statistics. She tells him also about the challenges of raising mixed race children in an affluent, largely White community so different from where they grew up. And when her son is the victim of a racial epithet at a summer camp, McManus helps us viscerally understand the pressures to keep pretending everything is OK, to avoid being thought of as just another “angry Black woman.”
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