Weekend reading

- Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, which is what it says on the tin. An interesting and deeply depressing look at how local, state, and federal government policies were intended to create housing and educational segregation in the U.S. throughout the 20th century, and did, with effects that remain today. This was assigned reading for my property law class (or will be— I kind of jumped the gun and read the whole thing over the weekend); I'm looking forward to discussing it and diving deeper into the topic throughout the semester.

- Boys of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson, a gorgeous, devastating novel about a teenager with the power to bring dead things back to life, who finds himself drawn towards two diametrically opposed people - Pan, a goth, openly gay and gender-nonconforming teen who cultivates a reputation as "the local witch," and the Judge, a cruel and charismatic evangelical leader with political aspirations - when his family moves from Germany to Alabama.

( Thoughts )