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Well-Read Black Girl : Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves - Glory Edim

Well-Read Black Girl

Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

By: Glory Edim

Paperback | 13 April 2023 | Edition Number 1

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An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by Glory Edim, founder of the popular book club and online community, Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognising ourselves in literature.

Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives - but not everyone regularly sees themselves reflected on the pages of a book.

In this timely anthology, Glory Edim, founder of the online community, Well-Read Black Girl, brings together original essays by some of America's best black women writers to shine a light on how important it is that we all - regardless of gender, race, religion, or ability - have the opportunity to find ourselves in literature.

Whether it's learning about the complexities of femalehood from Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison, finding a new type of love in The Color Purple, or using mythology to craft an alternative black future, each essay reminds us why we turn to books in times of both struggle and relaxation. As she has done with her book club-turned-online community, Edim has created a space where black women's writing, knowledge and life experiences are lifted up, to be shared with all readers who value the power of a story to help us understand the world, and ourselves.

Contributors include: Jesmyn Ward (Sing, Unburied, Sing), Lynn Nottage (Sweat), Jacqueline Woodson (Another Brooklyn ), Gabourey Sidibe (This is Just My Face), Morgan Jerkins (This Will Be My Undoing), Tayari Jones (An American Marriage), Rebecca Walker (Black, White and Jewish), and Barbara Smith (Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology).

About the Author

Glory Edim is the founder of Well-Read Black Girl, a book club turned online community and literary festival. WRBG provides a vital space for Black women readers and writers to connect and grow, whilst showcasing and celebrating the work of Black female writers.
Industry Reviews
These essays build the altars for black women to recognize and support each other's work, not as collectibles rendered visible or easily consumed by non-black audiences, but as an acknowledgment of black women as architects of their own futures and universes. . . . Each essay can be read as a dispatch from the vast and wonderfully complex location that is black girlhood and womanhood. . . . They present literary encounters that may at times seem private and ordinary-hours spent in the children's section of a public library or in a college classroom-but are no less monumental in their impact, - The Washington Post

Glory Edim has curated a brilliant collection of essential American reading for the twenty-first-century reader. This book is smart, powerful, and complete. - Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko and Free Food for Millionaires

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