mskaylajanelle 's review for:

We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union

5.0

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

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Gabrielle Union's We're Going to Need More Wine is candid and emotional while, more often than not, being laugh-out-loud hilarious. Union shares her own unique lived experiences using language that appeals to any reader who may pick up the memoir. Union shares scenes from her life exploring the following: understanding her relationship with her Blackness throughout the years, coming-of-age themes like dating, recounting her painful experience as a survivor of sexual assault, sharing the complexities of marriages and relationships, revealing to the world she was not always a "girl's girl" at the Black Women in Hollywood pre-Oscars luncheon, discourse on the dreaded "you're pretty for a Black girl" statement and further othering and tokenism in Hollywood, navigating her place in the life of her husband's child's life, and so much more. This book is dense with life lessons and captivating in its storytelling with heart, honesty, and humor.