Nonfiction

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Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, And Mine by Emily Bernard

Emily Bernard writes she is “most interested in blackness at its borders, where it meets whiteness, in fear and hope, in anguish and love.” She examines this intersection closely, with her own life as a case study, to see where the pieces fit together neatly, and where their edges collide.