“In my peripheral vision, I see the school slogan, Airington is Home, printed out in giant letters on a strung-up banner. But Airington isn’t home, or isn’t just a home for someone like me; Airington is a ladder. The only ladder that could lift my parents out of their dingy flat on the outskirts of… Read More If You Could See the Sun

The protagonist of Jessica George’s Maame is Maddie Wright—a twenty-five year-old Black woman living in London. At the start of the book, she (as our first-person narrator) discloses that her father is in the advanced stages of a Parkinson’s diagnosis. With her mother and brother both occasionally unable—and more often unwilling—to assist, she serves as… Read More On Grief

There was a raw emptiness inside me, hunger beyond hunger, my stomach like a bag I kept flipping to the seams: still empty. I grew used to the hunger, came to think of it as power instead of weakness. I needed nothing, I could live off nothing. I could exist on willpower and air. Five… Read More How To Be Eaten

He thought it would make me happy. You look happy, I reminded myself. Especially from far away. -Ashley Winstead, “The Last Housewife” I have a lot of complicated feelings about this book, which would be difficult to sum up in a single Instagram post–so here we are! *spoilers below, so proceed with caution* In Ashley… Read More The Last Housewife