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[Glory Edim] gathers an all-star cast of contributors--among them Lynn Nottage, Jesmyn Ward, and Gabourey Sidibe.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e--O: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 in the pages of a book. In this timely anthology, Glory Edim brings together original essays by some of our 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eContributors include Jesmyn Ward (\u003ci\u003eSing, Unburied, Sing\u003c\/i\u003e), Lynn Nottage (\u003ci\u003eSweat\u003c\/i\u003e), Jacqueline Woodson (\u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e), Gabourey Sidibe (\u003ci\u003eThis Is Just My Face\u003c\/i\u003e), Morgan Jerkins (\u003ci\u003eThis Will Be My Undoing\u003c\/i\u003e), Tayari Jones (\u003ci\u003eAn American Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e), Rebecca Walker (\u003ci\u003eBlack, White and Jewish\u003c\/i\u003e), and Barbara Smith (\u003ci\u003eHome Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Whether it's learning about the complexities of femalehood from Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison, finding a new type of love in \u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple,\u003c\/i\u003e or using mythology to craft an alternative black future, the subjects of each essay remind us why we turn to books in times of both struggle and relaxation. As she has done with her book club-turned-online community Well-Read Black Girl, in this anthology Glory Edim has created a space in which black women's writing and 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Praise for \u003ci\u003eWell-Read Black Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Each essay can be read as a dispatch from the vast and wonderfully complex location that is black girlhood and womanhood. . . . 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Continuing her life’s work to brighten and enrich American reading lives through the work of legendary Black authors, she now launches her Well-Read Black Girl Library Series with On Girlhood. This meticulously selected anthology features a wide range of unique voices, finally illuminating a distinctly robust sector of contemporary literature: groundbreaking short stories that explore the thin yet imperative line between Black girlhood and womanhood.\n\n\nDivided into four themes—Innocence, Belonging, Love, and Self-Discovery—the unforgettable young protagonists within contend with the trials of coming of age that shape who they are and what they will become. With this tradition in mind, Innocence opens with Jamaica Kincaid’s searing “Girl,” in which a mother offers fierce instructions to her impressionable daughter. This deceptively simple yet profound monologue is followed by Toni Morrison’s first and only published short story, the now-canonical “Recitatif,” about two neglected girls who come together in youth only to find themselves on opposite picket lines in adulthood.\n\n\nIn Belonging, Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson” follows rambunctious students on a field trip where they are exposed to a new world of luxury. In Love, Dana Johnson’s “Melvin in the Sixth Grade” captures the yearning of a lovesick teen smitten with the only boy who looks her way. And in Self-Discovery, Edwidge Danticat’s “Seeing Things Simply” charts the creative awakening of Princesse, a young woman with a hunger to be fully seen. These inspiring tales of world builders and rule breakers conclude with Zora Neale Hurston’s “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” a personal essay brimming with wit and strength: “When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again.”\n\n\nAt times heartbreaking and at times hilarious, these stories boldly push past flat stereotypes and powerfully convey the beauty of Black girlhood. 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Reading wherever and whenever she could, be it in her dorm room or when traveling by subway or plane, she found the Black writers whose words would forever change her life: Nikki Giovanni, through children's poetry cassettes; Maya Angelou, through a critical high school English teacher; Toni Morrison, while attending Morrison's alma mater, Howard University; Audre Lorde, on a flight to Nigeria. 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