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Womanish

A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life

By: Kim McLarin

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Womanish

A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life

By: Kim McLarin

In Womanish, McLarin explores how being both black and female - not to mention middle-aged - complicates everything from dating to parenting to mental health to race relations, and how one woman responds to those challenges. Powerful and timely, McLarin's essays draw upon a lifetime of experiences to paint a personal and societal portrait of what it means to be black and female in contemporary America.

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1632460793

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9781632460790

Jump at the Sun

A Novel

By: Kim McLarin

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Jump at the Sun

A Novel

By: Kim McLarin

The author explores the personal insecurities and inadequacies of mothers anddaughters, witnessed through the lives of three generations of women.

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324

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Harper Collins

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0060528494

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9780060528492

Divorce Dog

Men, Motherhood, and Midlife

By: Kim McLarin

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Divorce Dog

Men, Motherhood, and Midlife

By: Kim McLarin

Divorce Dog is a humorous meditation on love, sex and life by a writer who has straddled every line she's come across. McLarin is a child of the south sent north as a teen, a race-conscious black woman dating across the color line, a grumpy believer and a loving mother very skeptical about motherhood. In this collection of connected, personal essays, McLarin takes on the pain of divorce, the evolving meaning of race, the embarrassment of mid-life dating and the maddening possibility of love with insight, humor and grace.

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250

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C&r Press

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1936196093

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9781936196098

Weathering

By: Kim McLarin

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Weathering

By: Kim McLarin

The" weathering" hypothesis has been proposed to explain the early health deterioration of Black women--and other marginalized groups--as a consequence of their exposure to negative societal stressors including prejudice, social alienation, institutional bias, political oppression, economic exclusion and racial discrimination. Imbued with unapologetic, raw and unflinching honesty, the essays in Weathering boldly address the the joys and hardships of being an older--i.e. weathered--Black women in contemporary America. Award-winning author Kim McLarin utilizes deeply personal experiences, such as learning to ride a motorcycle, shoot a gun and taking care of an elderly parent, along with those with a broader political context--how she was targeted by a rightwing organization dedicated to attacking faculty who write or teach about racial injustice--to illuminate the pain and power of aging Black women. In the process, McLarin shines a light on a group that is often invisible. Powerfully speaking truth to power, Weathering is an important contribution to the ongoing dialogue about race, aging and feminism.

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Ig Publishing

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1632461587

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9781632461582

James Baldwin's Another Country: Bookmarked

By: Kim McLarin

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James Baldwin's Another Country: Bookmarked

By: Kim McLarin

Award-winning author Kim McLarin takes on James Baldwin's classic novel, Another Country.

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176

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Ig Publishing

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1632461218

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9781632461216

Growing Up X

A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X

By: Ilyasah Shabazz

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Growing Up X

A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X

By: Ilyasah Shabazz

“Ilyasah Shabazz has written a compelling and lyrical coming-of-age story as well as a candid and heart-warming tribute to her parents. Growing Up X is destined to become a classic.” –SPIKE LEE February 21, 1965: Malcolm X is assassinated in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. June 23, 1997: After surviving for a remarkable twenty-two days, his widow, Betty Shabazz, dies of burns suffered in a fire. In the years between, their six daughters reach adulthood, forged by the memory of their parents’ love, the meaning of their cause, and the power of their faith. Now, at long last, one of them has recorded that tumultuous journey in an unforgettable memoir: Growing Up X. Born in 1962, Ilyasah was the middle child, a rambunctious livewire who fought for–and won–attention in an all-female household. She carried on the legacy of a renowned father and indomitable mother while navigating childhood and, along the way, learning to do the hustle. She was a different color from other kids at camp and yet, years later as a young woman, was not radical enough for her college classmates. Her story is, sbove all else, a tribute to a mother of almost unimaginable forbearance, a woman who, “from that day at the Audubon when she heard the shots and threw her body on [ours, never] stopped shielding her children.”

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One World

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0345444965

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9780345444967

Book's by Kim McLarin

Womanish

Womanish

Jump at the Sun

Jump at the Sun

Divorce Dog

Divorce Dog

Weathering

Weathering

James Baldwin's Another Country: Bookmarked

James Baldwin's Another Country: Bookmarked

Growing Up X

Growing Up X

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