A review by anomalez
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae

2.0

I really wanted to like this book. I had heard so much about Issa Rae and I had heard wonderful things about her show “Insecure”. But wow, this was hard to finish because she was just so superficial and kind of creepy. There’s a whole chapter about her cat fishing on the Internet when she was a child and I stopped when I got there because it was just so creepy that she didn’t see anything wrong with it. I finally picked it up again just so I could finish it and I can’t say it got much better. There’s a whole long part about roaches and a really long part about brand name clothing I just was kind of insipid. I liked hearing her talk about Senegal. That was about it. I don’t think I’m her target audience.