Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard

Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

Emily Bernard

240 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography essays literary memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
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"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of ...

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reflective 90%
emotional 66%
informative 40%
challenging 31%
inspiring 25%
hopeful 21%
sad 10%
funny 6%
lighthearted 4%
tense 4%
dark 1%

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slow 15%

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