I liked this satire of middle-class white liberal attitude to race. Elmira, at the centre of the story, is a black woman lost in life role post college, a nanny for an affluent family, caught in a racist incident at a local shop. As the book progresses, we find her pulled in separate ways by Alix, her employer + her white boyfriend. The qn is whether she is viewed as an individual or as a trophy for a middle class society unsure how to manage race