e this book having one of those characters suggest a smudging as a sign of her woo-woo eccentricity
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
And yeah, this is all especially hard to swallow given it's very North American (cider, Main Street, pumpkins etc) while drawing on such an English book. Which I have no problem with, to be clear, it's just a bit jarring to read that extract as a Brit - village fete in Wind in the Willows-type land yet so very North American - and it makes the weirdness of Sun Li and the 'European settler-coding Indigenous North American animals' really stand out! Like the sense of generic American-ness being white and European-descended is so strong.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
And yeah, this is all especially hard to swallow given it's very North American (cider, Main Street, pumpkins etc) while drawing on such an English book. Which I have no problem with, to be clear, it's just a bit jarring to read that extract as a Brit - village fete in Wind in the Willows-type land yet so very North American - and it makes the weirdness of Sun Li and the 'European settler-coding Indigenous North American animals' really stand out! Like the sense of generic American-ness being white and European-descended is so strong.