A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender--and toward a brighter future--from National Book Award nominee Evette DionneMy body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding...
African American women authors
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Author:Dionne, EvetteSummary: - Author:Smith, Tracy K.Summary:
A TIME and Washington Post Best Book of the Year - The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might - together - come to a new view...
- Author:Perkins, NicholeSummary:
Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes listeners on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media, and the internet from the perspective of one southern Black woman.
- Author:Irby, SamanthaSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A GLAMOUR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A hilarious new essay collection from Samantha Irby "engages readers with her characteristic combination of laugh-out-loud moments, heartfelt passages and plenty of...
- Author:Irby, SamanthaSummary:
Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page with her debut collection of brand-new essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, being black, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease, and more. Every essay is...
- Author:Felix, CamonghneSummary:
"Powerful . . . a poetic meditation on how love or attempts at loving can drive us to madness." - The Boston Globe "We learn about the cracks in Felix's upbringing, the hurt from the breakup itself, and a pain that...
- Author:Woodson, JacquelineSummary:
A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another Brooklyn, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson...
- Author:Nelson, AdibaSummary:
With a new baby with medical needs and a slew of hardships, Adiba Nelson set out on a reckoning that was just as generational as it was personal. Along the way, she never loses her heart or her humor.
