RaveLos Angeles Review of Books\"... a powerful collection of essays and conversations ... The anthology is also a thorough encyclopedia ... reading the collection felt like therapy, a release. At times sentimental, it never fails to nourish the soul in how it relates the everyday heartaches and the myriad joys of black girls ... In the end, we the readers realize that each essay in Well-Read Black Girl embodies Jemisin’s call to action...\
Roxane Gay
RaveLA Review of BooksGérard spends his days thinking about the many reasons he hates America... the people, the weather, especially the cold.\' So begins Roxane Gay’s Ayiti, a compact but powerful short fiction collection that can be read in one sitting ... A disturbingly beautiful mélange illuminating the Haitian diaspora, each piece captures the humanity of a people, boils and all ... We, the readers, who are intimate with the United States’s sorrows, are left grateful that Gay has opened up for us another portal into the variety of immigrant experiences in our country.
