Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood

Title: Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood

Author: bell hooks

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

Publication Year: 1997

ISBN-10: 805055126

In this memoir of perceptions and ideas, renowned feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a stirringly intimate account of growing up in the South. Stitching together the gossamer threads of her girlhood memories, hooks shows us one strong-spirited child’s journey toward becoming a writer. Along the way, hooks sheds light on the vulnerability of children, the special unfurling of female creativity, and the imbalance of a society that confers marriage’s joys upon men and its silences on women. In a world where daughters and daddies are strangers under the same roof, and crying children are often given something to cry about, hooks uncovers the solace to be found in solitude, the comfort to be had in the good company of books. [line break] Bone Black allows us to bear witness to the awakening of a legendary author’s awareness that writing is her most vital breath.