Author Mariama Lockington’s debut middle grade book, FOR BLACK GIRLS LIKE ME comes out on July 30th. Hear her personal connection to this book and her reading life in childhood.
Episode Mentions:
* Sweet Valley High* Baby-Sitters Club* The Bluest Eye* Jane Eyre* The Hobbit* Beloved* Harriet the Spy* Saul Williams* Hatchet* Nancy Drew* For Black Girls Like Me* her buzzfeed article* Anne of Green Gables* Heavy
