Training School For Negro Girls

This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who's n... (more)

This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who's never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life's "training school"{u2014}with lessons on gentrification and respectability- and fight to create their own sense of space and self. (less)

This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who's n... (more)

This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who's never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life's "training school"{u2014}with lessons on gentrification and respectability- and fight to create their own sense of space and self. (less)