Hunger! I couldn’t wait to read this book. Ever since I read “Bad Feminist” I’ve been waiting. I was hoping to read how or what lead 12-year-old Roxane into a bad situation. Ever since she mentioned that she was raped by a ‘congress’ of baboon she called boys. In “Hunger,” […]
Jamaica Kincaid
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This Is How You Lose Her I was looking for a picture of one of my heroines, Toni Morrison. At the moment it’s Toni and Jamaica Kincaid. They have this voodoo nexus that really impresses me. In their stories, they talk about a future that is revealed sometimes in the […]
Hail King Kincaid by Manuel Palacio Hail King Kincaid, for she is ferocious uncompromising honest and brave. Jamaica Kincaid spends a lot of her time dispensing what a critic so accurately put, awful truths; truths people spend a lot of time trying not to acknowledge. Understanding this Jamaica Kincaid takes […]
Jamaica Kincaid Lucy by artist Manuel Palacio There’re a few books that I can think of that had a profound impact on me. Zami by Audre Lorde, I read it in my early thirties when I had a strong belief in the power of my manhood, although I would not […]
