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A review by _kristinsworld
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library by Glory Edim
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
”For Black girls, now and always” 🤎
This was a great collection of short stories about Black girlhood and womanhood, divided into 4 themes: innocence, belonging, love and self-discovery. I enjoyed some stories more than others, but I think that’s pretty much expected with any anthology. I love how the editor chose Zora Neale Hurston’s How It Feels to be Black as the epilogue to remind us that our Blackness doesn’t have to be viewed as a tragedy.
My faves were Toni Morrison’s Recitatif, Alexia Arthur’s Bad Behavior and Paule Marshall’s Reena.
This was a great collection of short stories about Black girlhood and womanhood, divided into 4 themes: innocence, belonging, love and self-discovery. I enjoyed some stories more than others, but I think that’s pretty much expected with any anthology. I love how the editor chose Zora Neale Hurston’s How It Feels to be Black as the epilogue to remind us that our Blackness doesn’t have to be viewed as a tragedy.
My faves were Toni Morrison’s Recitatif, Alexia Arthur’s Bad Behavior and Paule Marshall’s Reena.