Book jacket image for One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon

Knopf

9780593470671

STARRED REVIEW

One of Our Kind

Wildly successful young adult author Nicola Yoon’s first book for adults vividly captures the paradoxes and discontents of the striving Black middle class.

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Review of ‘One of Our Kind’

Bestselling young adult author Nicola Yoon’s first book for adults is a provocative mashup of body snatcher horror in the vein of The Stepford Wives, with the intraracial introspection of Ellis Cose’s The Rage of a Privileged Class

One of Our Kind is built around the complex truth that while white liberal guilt is more…

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