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GIRL

Essays on Black womanhood

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GIRL

By: Kenya Hunt
Narrated by: Kenya Hunt, Ebele Okobi, Jessica Horn, Funmi Fetto, Amanda Bright
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‘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.

©2020 Kenya Hunt (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Critic 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

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