03 June 2018

Book 46: New Boy by Tracy Chevalier


Been waiting for this one for a while - part of the Hogarth Shakespeare Project - the third I've read (the other two being Margaret Atwood's Tempest and Anne Tyler's Taming of the Shrew). This one really appealed to me as not only do I like Tracy Chevalier very much, but it takes places in the DC suburbs in the 70s - something to which I can really relate.  An excellent retelling; who'd have thought the machinations of Othello were so suited to the 6th grade playground? I have to say, though, it didn't feel as much like my primary school as I thought it might - probably because I grew up in PG County and we were highly integrated by then. A new black face wouldn't have meant the same thing for us...

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