How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories"How to Wrestle a Girl is a work of stunning grace and rhythm. In these stories Venita Blackburn reminds us she is a writer unlike any other, her stories propelled by voice and wit and harsh beauty." Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah, author of Friday BlackHilarious, tough, and tender stories from a farseeing star on the riseVenita Blackburns characters bully and suffer, spit and tease, mope and blame. Theyre hyperaware of their bodies and fiercely observant,

Harts begins by acknowledging the "ugly truths" that keep women of color from getting the proverbial seat at the table in corporate America: micro-aggressions

Amaryllis' best friend and roommate

Twenty-three dollars and eleven cents is all that 35-year-old Chloe Davis Michaels has to her name after she is driven from her home and career as a jet-setting Hollywood publicist

and no furniture for them to use

Elaine Brown assumed her role as the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party with these words: "I have all the guns and all the money

It includes job profiles of real professionals

He holds graduate degrees from the University of London

documentarian

Abdo & Daughters is an imprint of Abdo Publishing

Failure to communicate effectively can lead to serious problems

complex tale of psychological suspense with echoes of Misery involving a novelist

The first two chapters of the book examine the basic structure and content of the discourse about Blacks in Euro-American culture including Hegel's ideological pronouncements about Africa and the Western concept of the Black in literature