You should read this book if you actually care about how Black women must get free. It requires that we connect the past to the present and honor the women that came before us, who were radical before we even understood what it meant to be so, and who were willing to put their bodies on the line before we were even born. For me, this is critical literature for conscious resistance in our current time.
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What moves this book from just a story of what happens when another Black man is wrongly accused of a crime and sent to prison, is the deep, complicated and soul touching saga of Roy and Celestial’s marriage. Their relationship was, as I said before, on the cusp of blossoming or dissolving just before Roy is snatched away from the life they were slowly piecing together.
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Literary Black Girl 