“When I began it, I saw that the story didn’t begin with her at all, but further back. I decided to begin it, for now, with the dog.” “And the dog died, and all my stories with him…” Emily Haworth-Booth’s Mare (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2026) is the type of book that will rip theContinue reading “MARE – Emily Haworth-Booth”
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BLACK GIRLS MUST BE MAGIC – Jayne Allen
I finally got my hands on Jayne Allen’s Black Girls Must Be Magic (HarperCollins 2022 – originally published as Black Girls Must Die Exhausted: And Baby Makes Two in 2019 by Quality Black Books). The follow-up to Black Girls Must Die Exhausted continues Allen’s love letter to Black women, and all women. The second installmentContinue reading “BLACK GIRLS MUST BE MAGIC – Jayne Allen”
BLACK GIRLS MUST DIE EXHAUSTED – Jayne Allen
Jayne Allen’s Black Girls Must Die Exhausted (Harper, 2021 – first published in 2018) is unapologetically “black,” but it didn’t choose to be so – it just is, and it’s taken far too long for a book like this just to exist on the same shelves as books by white authors about white women withContinue reading “BLACK GIRLS MUST DIE EXHAUSTED – Jayne Allen”
A Girl Named Tommi 