{"product_id":"blackgirl-on-mars-isbn-9781914420283","title":"Blackgirl on Mars","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlackgirl on Mars \u003c\/i\u003eis a radical memoir that chronicles author, educator and activist Lesley-Ann Brown's two years' worth of travel searching for \"home\".\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs she travels across the US during the Black Lives Matter protests and Covid-19 pandemic and then to Trinidad and Tobago to attend the funeral of her grandmother, Brown tells her own life-story, as well as writing about race, gender, sexuality, and education, and ideas of home, family and healing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth a radical political manifesto and a moving memoir about finding your place in the world, \u003ci\u003eBlackgirl on Mars\u003c\/i\u003e is about what it means to be a Black and Indigenous woman in Europe and the Americas in the twenty-first century.“Lesley-Ann Brown has a brave voice and a keen eye, offering an unflinching view of what it means to be a Caribbean American woman living in Europe.” - \u003cb\u003eGary Younge\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAnother Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “So rich and vibrant that it almost makes you forget the very deep, guttural, and violent lessons within its pages.” - \u003cb\u003eElisa Donovan\u003c\/b\u003e, actress in \u003ci\u003eClueless\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSabrina the Teenage Witch\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBeverley Hills 90210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"An account of the existential reality of the maintenance of her own Black life within the realms of gender, sexuality, cultural connectivity and self-awareness.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Amsterdam News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLesley-Ann Brown\u003c\/b\u003e is a Caribbean American writer who is originally from Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDecolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son\u003c\/i\u003e. She currently resides in her own body.","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300329705701,"sku":"NP9781914420283","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781914420283.jpg?v=1767722731","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/blackgirl-on-mars-isbn-9781914420283","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}