num_pages: 208
description: A canvas of vividly impressionistic splashes of growing up young gifted Black and female.  The Philadelphia InquirerIn this memoir of perceptions and ideas renowned feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a stirringly intimate account of growing up in the South. Stitching together the gossamer threads of her girlhood memories hooks shows us one strong-spirited childs journey toward becoming a writer. Along the way hooks sheds light on the vulnerability of children the special unfurling of female creativity and the imbalance of a society that confers marriages joys upon men and its silences on women. In a world where daughters and daddies are strangers under the same roof and crying children are often given something to cry about hooks uncovers the solace to be found in solitude the comfort to be had in the good company of books.Bone Black allows us to bear witness to the awakening of a legendary authors awareness that writing is her most vital breath.With the emotion of poetry the narrative of a novel and the truth of experience bell hooks weaves a girlhood memoir you wont be able to put downor forget. Bone Black takes us into the cave of self-creation. Gloria Steinem
language: English
title: Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
publisher: Holt Paperbacks