Posted by Cameron Rustay, GD Creative Non-Fiction Reader for 7.1
Before going to guest novelist Hilary Zaid’s forum on her novel Paper is White, I didn’t know much about the book besides what I looked up on the Internet beforehand, to be honest. It’s nothing against Zaid or her novel, but amid the seemingly never ending amount of classwork reading and the encroaching midterm season, I don’t have much time to causally read, unfortunately. What did draw me to the forum was that I knew the novel dealt with LGBTQ+ topics, an interest of mine, and I wanted to hear about how a novel that’s main conflict is solved by the legalization of gay marriage still finds purpose today. Well, I can say that I went into the reading interested but left making a beeline to my apartment to order the book on Amazon (I forgot my credit card, otherwise I would have bought it at the event). Here’s why…