{"product_id":"girl-gurl-grrrl-on-womanhood-and-belonging-in-the-age-of-black-girl-magic-9780062987662","title":"Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA People Pick \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"One of the year's must-reads.\" -ELLE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\" A] provocative, heart-breaking, and frequently hilarious collection.\" -GLAMOUR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Essential, vital, and urgent.\" -HARPER'S BAZAAR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the vein of Roxane Gay's \u003cem\u003eBad Feminist\u003c\/em\u003e and Issa Rae's \u003cem\u003eThe Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, \u003c\/em\u003e but wholly its own, a provocative, humorous, and, at times, heartbreaking collection of essays on what it means to be black, a woman, a mother, and a global citizen in today's ever-changing world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack women have never been more visible or more publicly celebrated than they are now. But for every new milestone, every magazine cover, every box office record smashed, every new face elected to public office, the reality of everyday life for black women remains a complex, conflicted, contradiction-laden experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e An American journalist who has been living and working in London for a decade, Kenya Hunt has made a career of distilling moments, movements, and cultural moods into words. Her work takes the difficult and the indefinable and makes it accessible; it is razor sharp cultural observation threaded through evocative and relatable stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGirl Gurl Grrrl \u003c\/em\u003eboth illuminates our current cultural moment and transcends it. Hunt captures the zeitgeist while also creating a timeless celebration of womanhood, of blackness, and the possibilities they both contain. She blends the popular and the personal, the frivolous and the momentous in a collection that truly reflects what it is to be living and thriving as a black woman today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHunt, Kenya:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eKenya Hunt is the Fashion Director of Grazia UK. Her career spans working for some of the media world's most influential women's titles on both sides of the Atlantic from her post-graduate days as an Assistant Editor at the seminal magazine, \u003cem\u003eJane\u003c\/em\u003e, to her years as Deputy Editor of \u003cem\u003eELLE UK\u003c\/em\u003e. Her writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Evening Standard\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e and other publications. And she has made a number of appearances on BBC Woman's Hour, Sky News and more. An American based in England, she lives south of the river in London with her husband and two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Amistad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50647190995218,"sku":"9780062987662","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_757ffe7c-fa47-434c-b240-8e617180d65b.jpg?v=1733197600","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/girl-gurl-grrrl-on-womanhood-and-belonging-in-the-age-of-black-girl-magic-9780062987662","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}