Book: The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
Source: Library
Rating: 4 1/2 stars
Review:
I'm always amazed when I read memoirs or nonfiction books that the authors reveal so much of their lives. In The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl the essays featured were a mixture of drama and humor as the author described her life, from her childhood into her twenties. She described her attempts at trying to be cool, dealing with overprotective parents to the divorce of her parents and finally just being comfortable being herself. She's awkward and is now perfectly okay with it.
Throughout the book, you get a good sense that her younger self was trying so hard to be cool that she failed to see how her actions were going to backfire and many did. She detailed how the impact of her parents' divorce was also affecting how she viewed her own love life and how she was able to reconcile with it.
She also described growing up in the United States and in Senegal (where her father is from) and some of the cultural differences.
This was a fast moving very interesting look at the author's life as she finally figured out who she was and accepted it.
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