Black Girl Unlimited

100000 crying emojis. this cut me so deep. it's hard to explain the feeling this book gave me, as it reads very autobiographical and yet also magical and a bit surreal, it feels ... the way trauma is described and dealt with in this was painful and raw and real. also the conversation on race and poverty was extremely powerful. woof. what a book.

trigger warnings: child sexual abuse, graphic rape of a minor, drugs and alcohol addiction, suicidal ideation, drug overdose, mentions of murder, death