num_pages: 256
description:  Heat. Fire. Rain so blue. The blackness. The color of our hue. Powerful in its love for the generations of Black women at its heart... Lakiesha Carr unspools her stories with a patient fearlessness venturing into unexpected places and unique perspectives to fully illuminate them.--Dawnie Walton author of The Final Revival of Opal and NevA magisterial intimate look at Black womanhood: the grief that is carried within the body and the bonds of love that grant strength. A middle-aged woman feed slots at a secret back-room parlor. A new mother descends into a devastating postpartum depression wracked with the fear that she is unable to protect her children. A daughter returns home to join the other women in her family waging spiritual combat with the ghosts of their past.An Autobiography of Skin is a dazzling and masterful portrait of interconnected generations in the South from a singular new voice offering a raw and tender view into the interior lives of Black women. It is at once a powerful look at how experiences are carried inside the body inside the flesh and skin and a joyous testament to how healing can be found within--in love mercy gratitude and freedom.
language: English
title: An Autobiography of Skin
publisher: Pantheon