Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of a marriage between an African-American father and a white British mother, she shows indelibly how so-called "micro" aggressions in addition to blunt force insults can puncture a person's inner life with a thousand sharp cuts. Real American expresses also, through Lythcott-Haims's path to self-acceptance, the healing power of community in overcoming the hurtful isolation of being incessantly considered "the other.".
- ISBN10 1250137748
- ISBN13 9781250137746
- Publish Date 3 October 2017
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English