Life Notes Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women [Paperback]

These intensely personal testimonies illuminate the complexities of black women's lives, offering unique reflections about self, family, intimacy, work, politics, life transitions, violation, and recovery.Intimate, impassioned, often heartbreaking. . . . Reading through it is immensely rewardinglike having an hour-long, tell-all phone conversation with a close friend.Featured here are works by such well-known authors as bell hooks, Jamaica Kincaid, Rita Dove, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker, as well as by emerging and previously unpublished writers. The contributors are native daughters from three continents and the Caribbean, ranging in age from eight to sixty. Never in all the years have I encountered as intimate work as