![]() ![]() You're sending communiques out into the void. ![]() ![]() And at some point I realized that tweeting is actually just a form of writing, right?. It is nighttime there in this place where they ought not to be and they're not expecting to confront people in the middle of the night on their doorstep. It's an uncomfortable place to be because they're acknowledging some very deep and unflattering preconceptions based on race. But this liberal white couple is then forced to confront the fact that their immediate presumption is that this Black couple who show up on their doorstep must somehow be criminals, that they must be lying, that they couldn't possibly have a house this nice because they are Black.Īmanda reflects at one point that they look like they could be the handyman and the maid associated with the house and that maybe this whole thing is just a con. The reader is meant to feel a bit of discomfort there because, of course, a knock at the door late at night in a place where you're not expecting to be, it feels suspicious, it feels threatening. ![]() On the novel's opening chapters, in which the white family who is renting the house opens the door in the middle of the night to an older Black couple who claim to be the home's owners ![]()
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