Womanish

Full of feeling and absorbing incident, Kim McLarin’s Womanish is a companion book for searchers of the soul. In the tradition of James Baldwin, Alice Walker, and Henry Thoreau, McLarin’s essays reveal an original mind in action and set to take action. Read Womanish to be inspired, to get angry, and to learn to hold and use that anger in our incendiary times. – Megan MarshallMcLarin gathers forthright essays reflecting on love, friendship, motherhood, and, above all, overt and “thinly-veiled” expressions of racism. In her candid title essay, she considers her transition from girlhood to womanhood, the female body, and her experiences of midlife online dating, where misogyny was apparent–misogyny, like racism, rooted in fear. Bold, well-crafted essays on living, loving, and striving while black. * Kirkus Reviews *Womanish is the education the United States needs but doesn’t deserve. Not only has McLarin done the homework, she’s created an elegant cheat sheet in the form of thirteen perfect essays. – Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers

Kim McLarin is the author of the critically-acclaimed novels Taming It Down, Meeting of the Waters, and Jump at the Sun, and a memoir, Divorce Dog: Motherhood, Men, & Midlife. Her work has been honored by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, the Barnes & Noble Discover Program, the Hurston/Wright Foundation and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, among other organizations. McLarin’s nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, The Washington Post, Slate, The Root and other publications. She is a former staff writer for The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Associated Press. McLarin appears regularly on the Emmy-Award winning show Basic Black, Boston’s long-running television program devoted to African-American themes. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College in Boston, and a member of the board of PEN New England.

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