A Black Girl in the Middle: Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring It All Out
A blazingly honest essay collection from a refreshing new voice exploring the in-between moments for Black women and girls, and what it means to simply exist“Atthirty-seven years old I can say Shenequa is a big name and I’ma big, bold woman.”Shnequa Golding doesn’taim to speak for all Black women. We’retoo vast, too vibrant, and too complicated. As an adult, Golding begins to own her boldness, but growing up, she found herself “kid of in the middle,”fluctuating between not being the fly kid or the overachiever. Her debut collection of essays, A Black Girl in the Middle, taps into life’swins and losses, representing the middle ground for Black girls and women.Golding packs humor, curiosity, honesty, anger, and ultimately acceptance in 12 essays spanning her life in Queens, NY, as a first-generation Jamaican American. She breaks down the 10 levels of Black Girl Math, from the hard glare to responses reserved for