A review by abbutterflie
I Am Not Your Baby Mother by Candice Brathwaite

4.0

Good for giving a perspective on motherhood that is often omitted. It is her experience though, not that of all black mothers, i.e. I share elements of my experience with her, e.g. I worry about my children experiencing racism, but I didn't have the fraught experience she had with her mother and the story of how I got my bugaboo is a lot less interesting - I just went to John Lewis. But, as Chimamanda says, this is why we don't want single stories, and this one helps colour in what can otherwise be a very pale and middle class canon. A quick and worthwhile read.