A review by sapphistoire
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought by Briona Simone Jones

4.0

From the very first page I knew I was going to adore this anthology, and yet it still managed to exceed my expectations! I'm not a huge nonfiction reader and in general it takes me quite some time to really get into anthologies, but Mouths of Rain was a whole different story and I loved my time reading it! Mouths of Rain features a plethora of fantastic Black lesbian writers, all with unique perspectives on various aspects of life and I loved the mix of nonfiction (reflective pieces and memoirs; essays; thought pieces), fiction (short stories) and poetry within. My only slight issue with the book was that a few of the essays had so much overly academic writing which made them less accessible and quite hard to read at times. This was exacerbated by the bad formatting in the eARC that I had, but of course I am not factoring the formatting into my review or rating and I have already preordered a physical copy so that I can transfer my highlights and annotations over and re-read it all over again! Highly recommend this anthology!