Recs if you like Brown Girls...

books about the beauty and heartbreak of lifelong, ever-evolving female friendships. oh, to have been children together! to have grown up together, or to have grown apart!

the books that are most interesting, inventive, and complex for the girlhood studies grad student in me. whose “girlhood” are we talking about? i’m thinking of girlhood as a liminal, queer, socially constructed, often traumatic, uncanny space.

my favorite novels featuring experimental, inventive, unconventional narrative forms and structures

Books with black people in it (mostly as the mains characters)

Both Fiction and Non fiction books.

Short story collections