A review by crizzle
For Black Girls Like Me by Mariama J. Lockington

4.0

Weird coincidence that my 11 year old was reading this at the same time that I was reading “All You Can Ever Know”, a memoir of a girl who grew up as a transracial adoptee. So I went from that true story to this juvenile fiction, but written by a black adoptee. I feel like I am way more aware of their identity and racial issues after both. Warning for young readers, the mother has mental illness (bipolar) and at the climax she attempts suicide. There are light swears and it’s, as my middle schooler said, “intense”. I probably would have been uncomfortable with her reading it if she were younger.