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13. Lori L. Tharps, Kinky Gazpacho

This is a memoir about Lori, a young black girl growing up in Milwaukee. Attending mostly private schools, she is often the only black kid in her classes, and in this atmosphere she becomes obsessed with Spain, learning about it through her Spanish classes and picturing it as "another world when this one got to be too much. She finally gets to go there when she spends a year studying abroad in college and, as you can probably guess, it does not match her expectations.

This book was very light, but I enjoyed it. It has some very funny parts, and I found it very interesting to see race discussed in the context of a society outside the US. This is more of a beach read than something deep, but it's quite fun for what it is.

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