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Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
4.0

I admittedly only finished this one because GoodReads negged me by sending my "annual" reading list on December 16th - I STILL HAD TWO WEEKS OF READING LEFT, GOODREADS!

A book that I was 50% through with generous spacing was irresistible.

I struggled initially because the introduction felt very long, and I was having a hard time absorbing the academic language (NOT Cottom's fault! Just my brain in this particular month).

But I'm so glad I stuck with it, because I ended up really loving the essays later in the book, particularly Black Girlhood, Interrupted and Girl 6.