A review by snailbutch
Erzulie's Skirt by Ana-Maurine Lara

5.0

This book was my favorite book I read in college, by a pretty wide margin. The prose is beautiful, the narratives combine in interesting ways, and it is one of the most touching and authentic representations of lesbian identities that I have ever seen. I should say that this book requires a Big content warning for, well, a lot of things: violent racism and homophobia, human trafficking, rape, and probably more things that I am forgetting. Through all of the difficulties, the book never dips into despair. Trauma and suffering, sure, but there is healing as well. This book owns.