![]() ![]() As I was reading the last 20 pages or so, I felt my insides squeeze painfully with understanding. Leilani writes about being young and trying to find your calling, about surviving in this city that chews people up and spits them out, about navigating the world as a young Black woman. ![]() ![]() Edie is an artist, and so is Leilani, and I love the way she wrote about art: the struggle of having something inside that you want to express, but not being able to capture it adequately in your art. There's a lot of talk about the body and both the grotesqueness and beauty of it. There’s so much packed into this short novel. There’s a dark humor in this book that provides small pockets of escape from the sadness and loneliness of Edie’s life. I love novels set in NYC because I love seeing this city I call home through other people’s eyes. Edie’s struggles reminded me of my own experiences of being young and broke in NYC. ![]()
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