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Author:
Danielle Henderson
Publisher:
Viking
Date:
June 8, 2021
Danielle shares how she grew up and grew wiseâand the lessons sheâs carried from those days to these. In the process, she upends our conventional understanding of family and redefines its boundaries to include the millions of people who share her story.
What The Reviewers Say
... powerful and energetic.
... [Henderson] renders her family with searing honesty and wit.
Henderson recalls growing up in 1980s upstate New York, usually as the only Black kid navigating a sea of whiteness, with focus, crystal clarity, humor, and care. New York City beckons teenage Henderson with its possibilities, and her hilariously no-nonsense grandma, who young Henderson thought was 'the meanest, craziest person I’d ever met,' becomes the fiercely loving heart and undisputed star of this book. A story of learning to survive trauma and an inventory of love’s many guises, Henderson’s memoir ends as she starts college, leaving readers hoping there’s much more to come..
[A] book chock full of jokes, funny anecdotes and crackling dialogue.
