"No One Ever Asked" by Katie Ganshert is an amazing book. The novel has three main characters: Camile, the top dog of moms at Crystal Ridge; Jen, a new white mother of adopted Jubilee, who is trying to come to grips with becoming a mother of an orphan; and Anaya, a new, black teacher in the Crystal Ridge school district. When the neighboring school district loses it's accreditation, students have the right to go to neighboring Crystal Ridge. The true problems lie with Crystal Ridge being an upper crust white district and the other is not.
Ganshert dissects racism in Crystal Ridge, whether the residents realize it or not. Most racism is an underlying discrimination that goes mostly unnoticed by the inflicting party. Much of it is obvious to everyone. Ganshert peels back the layers and exposes them to the reader. This book is very well done and I highly recommend it. I received this book in exchange for an honest review from Waterbrook Publishing.
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