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Along the way, her efforts are complicated by intense workplace microaggressions, a primary relationship under strain, and an immediate, magnetic attraction to a beautiful lawyer named Susan Coogan. The novel stands as an essential exploration of the intersections of race, gender, and sapphic identity within the framework of twentieth-century detective fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315,4324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-interest","category-mystery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.9 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In The Game<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nikki Baker s In the Game (1991) is a historic milestone in queer literature. 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