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Starred Review on November 3, 2023 | Social Sciences
Novelist and essayist McLarin (Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life) contemplates living as a middle-aged Black woman in today's American society in this astute essay collection. She says she has lived through three cycles of racial progress and its backlash and is no longer shocked or surprised when the latter occurs. In one essay, after years of being against guns, she describes her decision to learn h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More