A review by tora76
For Black Girls Like Me by Mariama J. Lockington

4.0

This was so good! It's about a preteen girl dealing with issues of transracial adoption as well as her mother's untreated mental health problems. The author decided for some reason to write it entirely without commas, instead going with either run-on sentences or extra periods. I believe this was to mimic the flow of a poem while still keeping to paragraph format. Personally I don't feel that it added anything to the story and I didn't love it, but it was fine and I think the story is worth giving a go, even if the idea of no commas seems a bit off-putting.