Thanks for what what I expected… your own re-examination and good counterpoint. Yes, we can debate and become passionate about art (books, cinema, poetry, dance, etc.), and certainly fiction survives or doesn’t on reviews and word-of-mouth (and blogs these days). So a book with a KKK narrator might startle or anger or draw sympathy from partisans, but I think many of us look for something we find that is authentic, connected to our experience, and well-written. Language on the printed page and how it becomes voice in our head is magic. So you can certainly critique or dismiss an unworthy book. Just don’t say “the author had no right or poor judgement to tell the story that way which does not agree with my understanding” especially something like mental illness, which has such a broad spectrum and competing definitions. I have no idea how much or little anyone else knows about encounters with mental health or mental illness. But if a book seems inauthentic, does not move you, suffers from poor writing, dismiss it for the evidence it presents.