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✊🏿✊🏾It’s a @raisedvoicepress #bookrevi ✊🏿✊🏾It’s a @raisedvoicepress #bookreview! ✊🏽✊🏼 ▪️ ▪️ “I’ve been reading a lot of essay collections lately. I’ve been hearing a lot of voices about topics I want to hear about, learn about, devour, and improve myself with, but none felt quite as striking and intimate as Kristie Robin Johnson’s HIGH COTTON. This essay collection works as a full narrative; each nonfiction story takes on the form of the essay to teach us something along the ride of Johnson’s life. This time, the stories revolve around one small-town Georgia woman bred of five generations of small-town Georgia women, each chasing a life they can love despite the constant battles of being Black in America’s Deep South...” ▪️ Keep reading at the link in the bio! Reviewed by IBR founder Joe Walters ▪️ ▪️ #amreading #bookreviewer #bookstagram #blackbooksmatter #blackauthors #booksofinstagram #blacklivesmatter #africanamericanbooks #africanamericanart #bookstagrammer
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