I often fall into books. History often beckons me in...Stacey Lee is an author who blends history with fiction and showed me a world I knew little about. Atlanta, 1890. Chinese were the answer to filling the labor gap during Reconstruction. Who knew? Yet the word that jumped out at me, while reading Lee’s novel, was invisibility. How does one live a life of invisibility? How do you keep to the shadows? How do you blend into the background? How do you express yourself without being detected? How is it that society ignores your very existence? How do you challenge the prescribed norms? How do you find peace in your life? Happiness? Love?
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