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90/100Author:
Bernardine Evaristo
Publisher:
Grove Press
Date:
January 18, 2022
From the bestselling and Booker Prizeâwinning author of "Girl, Woman, Other," Bernardine Evaristoâs memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism.
What The Reviewers Say
Part coming-of-age story and part how-to manual, the book is, above all, one of the most down-to-earth and least self-aggrandizing works of self-reflection you could hope to read. Evaristo’s guilelessness is refreshing, even unsettling.
Throughout, the book deftly combines the personal and the political.
Manifesto, which could otherwise be called Portrait of the Artist as a Young Black Woman, is a much needed accounting of a Black woman's coming of age through the journey of creating a profoundly authentic creative life.
... offers unalloyed insights into the making of a writer, illuminating the artistic journey of the author in an important and refreshing perspective on publishing and creativity in Britain in the last 40 years.
