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It is these liminal spaces—of race, class, and body type—that the essays in Don’t Let It Get You Down excavate, presenting a clear and nuanced understanding of our society’s most intractable points of tension. The twelve essays that comprise this collection are rich with unforgettable anecdotes and are as humorous and as full of Nolan’s appetites as they are of anxieties.    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Descended from a Black and Mexican father and a white mother, Nolan's mixed-race identity is obvious, for better and worse. At her mother's encouragement, she began her first diet at the age of three and has been both fat and painfully thin throughout her life. She has experienced both the discomfort of generational poverty and the ease of wealth and privilege. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is these liminal spaces--of race, class, and body type--that the essays in \u003ci\u003eDon't Let It Get You Down\u003c\/i\u003e excavate, presenting a clear and nuanced understanding of our society's most intractable points of tension. The twelve essays that comprise this collection are rich with unforgettable anecdotes and are as humorous and as full of Nolan's appetites as they are of anxieties. The result is lyrical and magnetic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn On Dating White Guys While Me, Nolan realizes her early romantic pursuits of rich, preppy white guys weren't about preference, but about self-erasure. In the titular essay Don't Let it Get You Down, we traverse the cyclical richness and sorrow of being Black in America as Black children face police brutality, large Black females encounter unique stigma, and Black men carry the weight of other people's fear. In Bad Education, we see how women learn to internalize rage and accept violence in order to participate in our culture. And in To Wit and Also we meet Filliss, Grace, and Peggy, the enslaved women owned by Nolan's white ancestors, reckoning with the knowledge that America's original sin lives intimately within our present stories. Over and over again, Nolan reminds us that our true identities are often most authentically lived not in the black and white, but in the grey of the in-between. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerfect for fans of \u003ci\u003eHeavy \u003c\/i\u003eby Kiese Laymon and \u003ci\u003eBad Feminist \u003c\/i\u003eby Roxane Gay, \u003ci\u003eDon't Let It Get You Down \u003c\/i\u003edelivers an essential perspective on race, class, bodies, and gender in America today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49762526298385,"sku":"GOR013778755","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50108128723217,"sku":"CIN1982137266VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50396675637521,"sku":"CIN1982137266G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1982137266.jpg?v=1750728382"},{"product_id":"don-t-let-it-get-you-down-book-savala-nolan-9781982137281","title":"Don't Let It Get You Down","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49898239492369,"sku":"CIN1982137282G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49898246013201,"sku":"CIN1982137282A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51059828293905,"sku":"NIN9781982137281","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1982137282.jpg?v=1751063151"},{"product_id":"good-woman-book-savala-nolan-9781911648710","title":"Good Woman","description":"A raw and lyrical exploration of the confining expectations of womanhood and, if we dare, what lies beyond those limitations, from a writer Roxane Gay calls vibrant and thoughtful.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52702951276817,"sku":"NGR9781911648710","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53203361136913,"sku":"GOR014805620","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53203959906577,"sku":"GOR014806225","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781911648710.jpg?v=1770112780"},{"product_id":"good-woman-book-savala-nolan-9780063320086","title":"Good Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by \u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A stone cold, knock-out punch delivered with the caress of a silk glove. This book cracks you open.\" - Brittney Cooper, author of \u003ci\u003eEloquent Rage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This good woman thinks boldly and writes with exhilarating passion.... These are smart and daring essays to learn from and revel in.\" - Margo Jefferson, author of \u003ci\u003eNegroland\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConstructing a Nervous System\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA raw and lyrical exploration of the confining expectations of womanhood and, if we dare, what lies beyond those limitations--from a writer Roxane Gay calls \"vibrant and thoughtful.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGorgeous, badass, and practically waiting to pounce, \u003ci\u003eGood Woman: A Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e is acclaimed essayist Savala Nolan's follow-up to her \"standout collection\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003ci\u003eDon't Let It Get You Down\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA lifetime of playing by the rules of female social conditioning is not what it's cracked up to be for Nolan. The years of making herself smaller (literally and metaphorically); the sexual advances that led to more than she wanted; the bad marriage she fought like hell to keep; all the ways others questioned her identity or choices and she let it slide to keep the peace; her silence when requested; her body when desired--none of it worked. None of it protected her the way it was advertised to.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNolan noticed the same was true for the women around her and the women in history she read about. Across time and location, they were raised to be agreeable and \"good.\" Hyper-visible as sexual objects but invisible as full people. Living in a physical world created by men for men. Taking on the ultimate role of birth-giver and caretaker, yet seeing it remain an unsung act, even as it's a God-like endeavor. 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