Sometimes I really hate dialect in books. And part of the reason I do is that too often is crosses racial, class, or regional bounds between the author and the character and becomes downright offensive. As beloved as the Henrietta Lacks book that came out recently is, it made me cringe so desperately to hear how the white author portrayed the Black speech in that book. My girlfriend even asked “She knows they’re speaking English right?” Dialect is hard to pull off because ultimately, unless […]