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Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter

Miriam Darlington

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Over the course of a year, Miriam Darlington travelled around Britain in search of wild otters; from...

Catch a Tiger by the Tail (THIRDS #6)

Charlie Cochet

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Calvin Summers and Ethan Hobbs have been best friends since childhood, but somewhere along the line,...

M_M Military Paranormal Romance

ClareR (6129 KP) rated Zami: A New Spelling of My Name in Books

Jul 26, 2020

This is a snapshot in time from Audre Lorde’s childhood to young adulthood. She is born to immigrant Caribbean parents, and grows up in New York City. She leaves home to forge her own path at a young age, and lives in Mexico for a while during the McCarthy era. Throughout the book, she learns to love herself and accept her lesbianism. This book tells us what it was like to be a lesbian in the 1950s and more so, what it was like to be a black lesbian. It shows how Audre worked hard for everything, from working to provide for herself, to studying. She was fiercely independent, and even in hard times she doesn’t fall back on her parents.

This book is a real snapshot in time, and I loved reading it. This is such a readable memoir. I really enjoyed the pieces of poetry that she has added to the prose that she wrote around that time too.

Definitely a book worth reading.