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Personal essays touching on sexuality, growing up, motherhood, and identity. Funny and cutting.

#top10ofthedecade #nonfiction was easier for me, I think! If you haven‘t read the tagged book yet, think about stacking it. The author artfully plays with the ideas of fiction and nonfiction in a beautiful way.

This collection of short stories about the author‘s life work together to create a loose memoir. While I did not like the way the stories jumped back and forth between childhood and adult life (I would have rather it be more chronological), there is some pretty stunning prose in this book. Most of the stories deal with her relationship with the women in her family, particularly her mother, grandmother, and a great aunt. 4⭐️

Just finished this book. Loved it.

Starting How to Sit by Tyrese Coleman! I bought it because of one of the un-ignorable Powell's endcaps. Powell's endcaps are works of art.