The 'woke' one

My preferred reads are romances and thrillers which don't tax the brain overmuch and read quick and fast. But every now and then I find a book that relies on prose and plot to make a point and I am intrigued. 

The book's premise is fairly simple. A black child minder of a white child is accused of kidnapping by a white security guard at a grocery store. While things are cleared up fairly fast (including a video shot by a bystander), the parents are aghast and the mother now wants to prove her non racist credentials to the childminder. The book's drives home the cringe inducing actions of the privileged and how utterly ridiculous they are. Especially when compared to the real problems of the black protagonist - she has no direction in life and is struggling to make ends meet. Throw in a woke white boyfriend and we have a book that forces us to examine our own privilege and how we deal with those less fortunate than us. 

It's a thought provoking read and I enjoyed it extraordinarily though the pacing could be better and I wish the author had spent more time on the unique bond between the childminder and her charge. The resolution or the big reveal seemed a little too obvious to me and tied up things a little too neatly. 

The best part of the book really is to drive home the point that the privileged just don't listen enough and no matter how woke you are, sometimes you need to just shut up and sit down. As someone accused of being a keyboard warrior fairly often, all I can say is Point Noted.