Black Girl Unlimited
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Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side, where apartments are small and parents suffer addictions to the white rocks. Yet there is magic . . . everywhere. New portals begin to open when Echo transfers to the rich school on the West Side, and an insightful teacher becomes a pivotal mentor. Each day, Echo travels between two worlds, leaving her brothers, her friends, and a piece of herself behind on the East Side. There are dangers to leaving behind the place that made you. Echo soon realizes there is pain flowing through everyone around her, and a black veil of depression threatens to undo everything she’s worked for.
Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence, depression, racism, and sexism—all through the arc of a transcendent coming-of-age.
A powerful memoir for fans of Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson and American Street by Ibi Zoboi.1
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2 primary booksEcho Brown
Echo Brown is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2020 with contributions by Echo Brown.
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This annoyed me initially because it seems to be both fiction and memoir and I was all, “Pick one dammit!” But I really enjoyed it so fuck classification.
This superb memoir-but-also-fantasy-fiction is one of the most feminist things I've consumed, and possibly only intersectional feminist book at least in my memory. I'm judging this like I do memoirs: my rating is based on storytelling and moving the reader through stories and time. It was just excellent. It took me a minute to get into it (when does it not take me a minute?), but of course I eventually did. I loved the fantasy elements as metaphor, even if they were obvious I loved them regardless. I also thought Echo Brown did an excellent job with characterization and depth of side characters even though the story is told from one POV - the best authors are able to do this is in my opinion. Highly recommend for all readers teen and up. For those who pay attention to trigger warnings, I would look those up before starting this book. P.S. fantastic as an audiobook.
