GIRL
Essays on Black womanhood
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- 7,49 €
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- 7,49 €
Publisher Description
‘Powerful, intelligent and vital – one of the year’s must-reads’
Hannah Nathanson, Features Director, ELLE
Featuring contributions from Candice Carty-Williams, Jessica Horn, Ebele Okobi, Funmi Fetto and Freddie Harrel.
In the vein of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist, but wholly its own, Girl is a provocative, heartbreaking and frequently hilarious collection of original essays on what it means to be black, a woman, a mother and a global citizen in today’s ever-changing world.
Black women have never been more visible or more publicly celebrated. But for every new milestone, every magazine cover, every box office record smashed, the reality of everyday life remains a complex, nuanced, contradiction-laden experience.
Award-winning journalist and American in London Kenya Hunt threads razor sharp cultural observation through evocative and relatable stories, both illuminating our current cultural moment and transcending it.
Reviews
‘Powerful, intelligent and vital – one of this year’s must reads’ Elle
‘Enlightening, relatable, warm and witty, Girl is a must-read for 2020’ Sunday Times Style
‘Valuable’ Guardian
‘If any book should enrich – and disrupt – your life, let it be this.’ Harper’s Bazaar UK
‘very honest and intelligent’ Dina Asher-Smith
‘Put it on your reading list, pronto’ Dazed
‘Exceptional … This book genuinely changed the way I see the world’ Red
‘Essential reading’ Psychologies
‘Brilliant … if there’s any book you should read this year, it’s this one.’ Refinery29
‘Funny, heartbreaking, and needed now more than ever.’ Cosmopolitan
‘[A] smart, sharp look at what it means to be a black woman’ i News
‘Powerful’ Prima
‘Important’ Woman & Home
‘GIRL is written with a tenderness and urgency that will stay with you long after you have finished reading’ Press Association
‘Insightful’ ES Magazine
‘A fundamental read … This varied and at times introspective anthology is pithy, humorous and incredibly moving. We couldn’t recommend it enough.’ Magic Radio
‘Both moving and motivating; informative and transformative. I could not put it down. A truly beautiful book.’ Emma Gannon, bestselling author of Olive
‘Beautifully fluent and readable … A book not just to read but to witness.’ Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish)
‘Girl speaks to the Black woman of today.’ Bethann Hardison, fashion model and activist
‘Girl is a radical and magical diasporic curation of love for Black dialect, Black freedom, Black cool, Black culture, Black joy, and mostly–and specifically–Black women.’
Damon Young, author What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hunt, deputy editor of the fashion magazine Grazia UK, debuts with a rich collection of personal essays about her life and career. Reflecting on her experiences as an African American woman in the U.K., Hunt lets readers follow along as she attends the U.K. premiere of Black Panther, confronts the coded racism of Airbnb owners, and reports on the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, the U.K.'s worst residential fire since WWII. To trace the beginnings of her fascination with fashion, Hunt recalls hearing her aunt describe attending the Ebony Fashion Fair, a "traveling catwalk expo," in Virginia, and the encouragement Hunt received early on in her career from Bethann Hardison, one of the first high-profile Black models and an early activist for industry diversity. Celebrating girl as "the root word in the unique love language between Black woman," Hunt invites some of the friends she's made in the U.K. to contribute guest essays, including fashion blogger Freddie Harrel, who riffs on braiding as a female bonding ritual, and Queenie author Candice Carty-Williams, who describes becoming the first Black woman to win a British Book Award. Hunt's work will broaden perspectives and inspire readers.