Tag: John Holman

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Early on in Triangle Ray, a writing teacher tells the narrator, Ray Fielding, “You seem to tell more significant truths in third person.” Indeed, the book’s changing point-of-view—the stories alternate between first and third person—deepens Holman’s exploration of black identity within a middle class existence, allowing readers to view Ray’s struggles from others’ perspectives as well as his own.