Chrome Valley: Poems Binding:Hardcover stereotype-busting portrait of contemporary Africa

stereotype-busting portrait of contemporary Africa in all its splendid diversity

April 01 2020

the weight of secrets

she now turns to pills and alcohol to numb the pain of her past

#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half

Chrome Valley: Poems Binding:Hardcover stereotype-busting portrait of contemporary AfricaBoldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne's Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait of Black womanhood in America. "We praise their names & the hands that write Praise the mouth that speaks," she writes in tribute to those who came before her. Browne captures a quintessential girlhood through the pleasures and pangs of young love: the thrill of skating hip to hip at the roller rink, the heat of holding hands in the dark, and,