I very much used to want to be a police officer. This book was a struggle to read but in a very different way than expected. I wrote it down somewhere and yet I can not find it. I am frustrated because Brandon Hobson said something that really stuck to me and it’s sitting there in the back of my mind but I can not pull it forward. The conversation between Brandon and Roxane was very different from the conversations with the previous authors. The description of Middleton was fascinating. This is not something that happened often when living in Canada but has been happening more since moving to the states. It’s very strange to read a book describing a place you know.
I can’t image struggling with that identity. I have always been very defined in one particular role and that is the role of being a female. There are so many aspects that I just couldn’t understand the need for abuse, the need to be a mother. These stories are so important and I am thankful to have read it. I wanted, needed more, and yet I totally understand ending it where Torrey did. I very much have a love hate relationship with the ending of this book. If you grab any book from this book club let it be this one. I have never purchased one but now I have an ever growing list of ones I would like to pick up eventually. This is also the book that introduced me to zines. Black Power Naps Navild Acosta Fannie Sosa I don’t write many goodread reviews anymore, I tend to only do so when I really want to remember certain details of the book and this is one to remember.
I have filled the book with sticky notes and broke down my goodreads review into sections quotes, favorite essays, thinks to look up, things to try, words I had to define. One of the first anthologies that I have ever read and it is beautiful. Black Futures edited by Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew