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In this memoir of perceptions and ideas, renowned feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a stirringly intimate account of growing up in the American South.
One of bell hooks' foundational works introduced to the UK for the first time.
Stitching together the threads of her girlhood memories, bell hooks shows us one strong-spirited child's journey toward becoming the pioneering writer we know. Along the way, hooks sheds light on the vulnerability of children, the special unfurling of female creativity and the imbalance of a society that confers marriage's joys upon men and its silences on women.
In a world where daughters and fathers are strangers under the same roof, and crying children are often given something to cry about, hooks uncovers the solace to be found in solitude, the comfort to be had in the good company of books.
Bone Black allows us to bear witness to the awakening of a legendary author's awareness that writing is her most vital breath.
Author: bell hooks
Paperback Published 24 September 2024 208 pages
'With the emotion of poetry, the narrative of a novel, and the truth of experience, bell hooks weavesa girlhood memoir you won't be able to put down?or forget.Bone Blacktakes us into the cave of self-creation' Gloria Steinem