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A fearless and darkly comic debut essay collection about race, justice, and the limits of good intentions.In this stunning debut, Catapult editor and award-winning voice actor Tajja Isen explores the absurdity of living in a world that apologizes for structural racism, yet makes only cosmetic attempts to solve it. These nine daring essays explore the quick fixes society makes to mask systemic problems: the entertainment industry's pivot away from colorblind casting; diverse representation in books as an answer to literary whiteness; the law's erasure of forms of inequality; the cozy fictions of nationalism. In the spirit of Zadie Smith, Cathy Park Hong, and Jia Tolentino, Isen interlaces cultural criticism with her own lived experience to create a remarkable portrait of who we are and how we live today. Ultimately, Some of My Best Friends is interested in the discords between what we say and what we do; what we do and what we value; what we value and what we imagine to be possible.

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Tajja Isen is a writer, editor, and voice actor. Her essays and criticism have appeared in dozens of outlets across the US and Canada. She is an editor for Catapult magazine, the former digital editor for The Walrus, and has also edited for Electric Literature. She is the coeditor of the essay anthology The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate. A voice actor for over two decades, Tajja can be heard assuming various guises and accents on such animated shows as Atomic Betty, The Berenstain Bears, Super Why!, Go Dog Go, Jane and the Dragon, and many others. Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service is her first book. You can follow her on Twitter @TajjaIsen. Tajja Isen is a writer, editor, and voice actor. Her essays and criticism have appeared in dozens of outlets across the US and Canada. She is an editor for Catapult magazine, the former digital editor for The Walrus, and has also edited for Electric Literature. She is the coeditor of the essay anthology The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate. A voice actor for over two decades, Tajja can be heard assuming various guises and accents on such animated shows as Atomic Betty, The Berenstain Bears, Super Why!, Go Dog Go, Jane and the Dragon, and many others. Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service is her first book. You can follow her on Twitter @TajjaIsen.

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