![]() ![]() She turns to religion and she loves the library. She finds sustenance in a rich black community-though one grandmother hates dark skin. She struggles with a toy Barbie, preferring a brown doll. Still, hooks is right to declare that ""ot enough is known about the experience of black girls in our society,"" so her effort deserves close reading. Aiming ""to conjure a rich magical world of southern black culture,"" she avoids conventional signifiers like place names and dates and even shifts between a first-person and a third-person voice, referring to herself as ""she."" Add such techniques to simple, present-tense syntax, and the results can sound precious at times. Just as hooks, author of several books on issues of race and sex (Killing Rage, etc.) has idiosyncratically taken a lower-case name, her memoir, written in imagistic three-page segments, takes an unconventional approach. ![]()
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