SPOTLIGHT - GIRL, GURL, GRRRL by Kenya Hunt - PLUS a giveaway

 


A People Pick!

“One of the year’s must-reads.” –ELLE

“[A] provocative, heart-breaking, and frequently hilarious collection.” –GLAMOUR

“Essential, vital, and urgent.” –HARPER’S BAZAAR

In the vein of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist and Issa Rae’s The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, but wholly its own, a provocative, humorous, and, at times, heartbreaking collection of essays on what it means to be black, a woman, a mother, and a global citizen in today's ever-changing world.


Black women have never been more visible or more publicly celebrated than they are now. But for every new milestone, every magazine cover, every box office record smashed, every new face elected to public office, the reality of everyday life for black women remains a complex, conflicted, contradiction-laden experience.

 An American journalist who has been living and working in London for a decade, Kenya Hunt has made a career of distilling moments, movements, and cultural moods into words. Her work takes the difficult and the indefinable and makes it accessible; it is razor sharp cultural observation threaded through evocative and relatable stories.

Girl Gurl Grrrl both illuminates our current cultural moment and transcends it. Hunt captures the zeitgeist while also creating a timeless celebration of womanhood, of blackness, and the possibilities they both contain. She blends the popular and the personal, the frivolous and the momentous in a collection that truly reflects what it is to be living and thriving as a black woman today. 


Summary, courtesy AMAZON.


Kenya Hunt is the Fashion Director of Grazia UK. Her career spans working for some of the media world's most influential women’s titles on both sides of the Atlantic from her post-graduate days as an Assistant Editor at the seminal magazine, Jane, to her years as Deputy Editor of ELLE UK. Her writing has appeared in The GuardianThe Evening StandardVogue and other publications. And she has made a number of appearances on BBC Woman’s Hour, Sky News and more. 


An American based in England, she lives south of the river in London with her husband and two sons.



Thanks to #SheWritesPress and #BookSparks we have one copy to giveaway. Just tell us what memoir you're looking forward to reading in 2021. We'll announce a winner soon. Good luck.


GIVEAWAY: USA only please


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Comments

  1. I look forward to reading The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home in 2021.

    Nancy
    allibrary (at) aol (dot) com

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  2. Sensational: The Hidden History of America's Girl Stunt Reporters

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  3. The Wild Silence: A Memoir by Raynor Winn

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  4. The Officer's Daughter by Elle Johnson

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  5. Having already read the superb Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey and the fascinating biography Prairie Fires by Carolyn Fraser, this year on my books to read list include The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee, Inheritance by Dani Shapiro, We Need to Hang Out by Billy Baker, Dancing in the Mosque by Homeira Qaderi, and Widowish by Melissa Gould.

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