pris_asagiri 's review for:

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

5.0

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To have read this during the COVID-19 pandemic, during the Black Lives Matter protests after George Floyd’s murder (and Breonna Taylor’s and all the rest), to feel like your country is sliding back in time and in all the wrong ways, this was a breath of fresh air. A beautiful memoir told in prose-like poetry, that is accessible to kids, but meaningful to adults. I cannot say enough good things about it. Only to add that there are certain books that make you very glad that author had the life that led them to write this particular book. And this is such a book for me.