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A review by gabkust
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
I met Morgan at a women's event in the city and enjoyed chatting with her about Russian and Japanese literature and marathon training...only to return home and find, when I looked for her on LinkedIn that she was an NYT bestselling author with 4 published books under her belt...and is my age! I read a couple samples of her books and thought I'd start with this collection of autobiographical essays.
As a non-black American (and fellow Princetonian who has lived both in Princeton and NYC like her), it opened my eyes a LOT to how black American women go through life in a very, very different way and are judged and held up to different standards than white American women in the same spaces.
Morgan is very open about emotional and physically intimate moments for her that I probably wouldn't be as open about in published material but I think her writing is her way of processing it.
She is an EXTREMELY talented writer. Her mastery of prose is...flawless. I wish I could write half as well as her.
As a non-black American (and fellow Princetonian who has lived both in Princeton and NYC like her), it opened my eyes a LOT to how black American women go through life in a very, very different way and are judged and held up to different standards than white American women in the same spaces.
Morgan is very open about emotional and physically intimate moments for her that I probably wouldn't be as open about in published material but I think her writing is her way of processing it.
She is an EXTREMELY talented writer. Her mastery of prose is...flawless. I wish I could write half as well as her.