Wearing My Mother's Heart

Black History Month Women and minorities have things hard enough. To throw in being mixed-race on top of that? Especially when you look more like one race than the other? I imagine it becomes a difficult and draining task to constantly explain yourself to others, if you even care to. And you don't ha......more

A beautifully lyrical collection of poems about family, identity and belonging by a new to me poet. I was attracted by the gorgeous cover and ended up impressed with the quality of these poems. Good on audio and highly recommended for fans of poets like Tayi Tibble. Many thanks to NetGalley and the......more

I love her writing style, so poetic. So nuanced. So powerful 🥹 I’ve been reading a lot about relationships between women of colour and their mothers, and sisterhood and how important it is to our entire existence. Everything I’ve read by her is so inspiring and emotionally driven.......more

Actual Rating: 3.5 I definitely think this would be better physically read because I don’t know what happened during the audio production but the latter half of the book sounded like it had some tech problems and it sounded like sentences were getting clipped or like a CD was skipping and it definite......more

beautiful, moving, powerful poems......more