On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library

"From the young girl being schooled and scolded in Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” to the teenager reckoning with her parents’ abandonment in Alexia Arthurs’ “Bad Behavior,” from the sister who learns to love herself and crawls out of the shadow of her shallow sibling in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” to the young woman in Edwidge Danticat’s “Seeing Things Simply,” who discovers that her body is a work of art; these short stories in Glory Edim’s anthology On Girlhood make a heartfelt window into the expansive world of Black girlhood. We see the way they love, the way they hate, the way they respond to pressure, and perhaps most importantly, the way they respond to society."