Danielle Evans and Brit Bennett on the lies we tell ourselves
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A Black Woman's Story - A Story of a Black Mam, Part 1
"If you don't have a window to how a group talks amongst itself, it's hard to do the actual work of fiction," she says. "Most black people are very equipped to write about witness in this country ... because most of us spent our lives watching it and learning it" The book is published by Simon & Schuster at $16.99.
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