WAYWARD LIVES, BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS

Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
by Saidiya Hartman

MINI REVIEW

This gorgeous, dark, difficult book was well worth the read. With prose-like poetry, Hartman weaves stories of Black women around the turn of the last century who don’t fit the mold or keep their heads down together with stories on how society punishes them. Many of the stories are based on figments and scraps, and yet they illuminate lives I never knew existed. (Lily)