New York Times bestselling author Janice Lee’s novel “The Piano Teacher” is full of racial overtones. I read this recently for my book club and couldn’t get over the way mixed-race people were viewed. It seems to me that this book offers some great insights into the now-covert stereo-types of race in America, even though this book is set in Hong Kong at the start of World War II. Trudy is one of the main characters. Her mother was Portuguese and her father was Chinese. She’s described by the other central character, Will Truesdale, as being beautiful, exquisite, and perfect. The reader quickly comes to realize that not everyone in Hong Kong shares his view.
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I was a junior in high school, sitting in American History with my friends and minding my own business. It was a pretty white-bread high school in an affluent suburb of Denver in the mid-1980’s. We were studying World War II and my teacher looked at me. “Tell us about the Asian perspective of the war,” he said.