- Published: 11 February 2021
- ISBN: 9781473591844
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 240
Black is the Body
Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
- Published: 11 February 2021
- ISBN: 9781473591844
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 240
Contemplative and compassionate ... Bernard's voice is personable yet incisive in exploring the lived reality of race ... [Her] wisdom and compassion radiate throughout this collection.
Publishers Weekly
Conceived while the author was hospitalized after being stabbed by a white man, these 13 formidable, destined-to-be-studied essays mark the emergence of an extraordinary voice on race in America.
Oprah Magazine
Emily Bernard is a master storyteller. She writes with an honesty and vulnerability that is uncommon. These stories are about what it means to be human-to love, to hurt, to heal. They will make you think, re-think, feel, and grow.
Nana-Ama Danquah, author of Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey through Depression
My very favorite book that I have read so far this year...It's really life changing. If you get no other book this year, get Black Is the Body by Emily Bernard.
Ann Patchett
Of the 12 essays here, there's not one that even comes close to being forgettable. Bernard's language is fresh, poetically compact, and often witty ... Bernard proves herself to be a revelatory storyteller of race in America who can hold her own with some of those great writers she teaches.
Maureen Corrigan
I was enthralled by her words, drawn into the tapestries woven by her language that manifest glimpses of her life experiences
Bad Form
Everybody should read it ... Bernard explores heavy, knotty topics ... with extraordinary warmth and nuance
Stylist
Black Is the Body is one of the most beautiful, elegant memoirs I've ever read. It's about race, it's about womanhood, it's about friendship, it's about a life of the mind, and also a life of the body. But more than anything, it's about love. I can't praise Emily Bernard enough for what she has created in these pages
Elizabeth Gilbert