![]() ![]() These dynamics strive for some semblance of accountability, and the essays within this collection are used as displays of deep unlearning and restoring-balancing trauma and humor, poetics and reality, forgiveness and resentment. These parental relationships expose the conditioning that subconsciously informed her ideas on social issues such as colorism, feminism, war-induced PTSD, homophobia, marriage, and the n-word, among other things. Unifying personal narrative and cultural commentary, this collection grapples with the lessons that have been stored between parent and daughter. Kendra Allen's first collection of essays-at its core-is a bunch of mad stories about things she never learned to let go of. ![]()
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