Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories"Even in death, who has ownership over Black women's bodies?" Questions like this lurk between the lines of this stunning collection of stories that engage with African women's histories, both personal and generational. Their history is not just one thing: there is heartbreak and pain, and joy, and flying and magic, so much magic. An avenging spirit takes on the patriarchy from beyond the grave. An immigrant woman undergoes a naturalization ceremony

How does he match his clothes

There is nothing here to stop me

and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins

and feel everything in between

When a local politician takes an interest in Eniola and sudden violence shatters a family party

Sahara is Not Okay

The world continues becoming a dangerous place

Beautifully woven from personal narrative

where he finally shares his name: Emmett

bracingly confronts our present

The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility

he can't escape the scorn of his former peers or the ridicule of his new classmates