Many Twitter readers were reasonably distressed by Jerkins' musings about her darker, lower-income black classmate, which, amongst other belated comebacks to her high school bullies (if we're calling them that), included a police violence fantasy. I think she tries to do the same in This Will Be My Undoing, but often fails miserably. Instead of scapegoating faceless institutions or white hipsters, Jerkins put her own privilege and complicity on the table. As a student attending a university responsible for many of our city's gentrification problems, I found the article to be introspective in a way many pieces aren't. My first introduction to Jerkins was her black gentrifier essay, which I read in my freshman year at Penn. Wow.I think my main question about Morgan Jerkins' debut is similar to many on my timeline-what book were the rest of y'all reading?
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