num_pages: 304
description: Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side where apartments are small and parents suffer addictions to the white rocks. Yet there is magic . . . everywhere. New portals begin to open when Echo transfers to the rich school on the West Side and an insightful teacher becomes a pivotal mentor. Each day Echo travels between two worlds leaving her brothers her friends and a piece of herself behind on the East Side. There are dangers to leaving behind the place that made you. Echo soon realizes there is pain flowing through everyone around her and a black veil of depression threatens to undo everything shes worked for.Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty sexual violence depression racism and sexismall through the arc of a transcendent coming-of-age.A powerful memoir for fans of Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson and American Street by Ibi Zoboi.
language: English
title: Black Girl Unlimited
publisher: Holt/Ottaviano