BONE BLACK: MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD (PB)

bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952, was an American author and professor of English, African and Afro-American studies, American literature, and women's studies and when she died in 2021, left behind a lifetime of thought that was decades ahead of its time. This edition sees one of her foundational works introduced to the UK for the first time. Stitching together the threads of her girlhood memories, it reveals one strong-spirited child's journey toward becoming the pioneering writer we know. Along the way, hooks sheds light on the vulnerability of children, the special unfurling of female creativity and the imbalance of a society that confers marriage's joys upon men and its silences on women.