lauriel13 's review for:

You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke, Brené Brown

3.0

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I saw the authors Tarana Burke and Brene Brown on The Daily Show (I think) and enjoyed their interview and thought this would be a good book to check out. I truly thought I’d finish it in a day or two, but I didn’t. Technically this book is written for a Black audience and I am not Black. It is a series of essays written by many different Black individuals about shame. Most were about personal experience, some more educational. I definitely felt some of the essays were better than others. There were a couple I didn’t feel like I connected with at all. I am glad I read it and I do feel like I’d like to discuss it with others but at this point I don’t know anyone else personally who has read it. I think I’d like it more or get more out of it through a more thorough discussion.