An Autobiography of Skin

by Lakiesha Carr

Book Overview

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - This magisterial, intimate look at Black womanhood "follows three women whose various traumas haunt them literally and metaphorically, as it explores what it means to be a Black woman in America today" (The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice).

A middle-aged woman feed slots at a secret back-room parlor. A new mother descends into a devastating postpartum depression, wracked...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593316533
• ISBN13: 9780593316535
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"