From the breakout author of comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood. "Morgan Parker's latest collection is a riveting testimony to everyday blackness . . . It is wry and atmospheric, an epic work of aural pleasures and personifications that demands to be read—both as an account of a private life and as searing political protest." — A Best Book of 2019 at , , the , and more. A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at and more.