Thick with Trouble
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  • Published: 13 February 2024
  • ISBN: 9780593829561
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00
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Thick with Trouble

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13 Feb 2024
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13 Feb 2024
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26 Mar 2024
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From National Book Award finalist Amber McBride, a mystical, transcendent poetry collection about Black womanhood in the American South

In Thick with Trouble, award-winning poet Amber McBride interrogates if being “trouble”—difficult, unruly, fearsome, defiant—is ultimately a weakness or an incomparable source of strength. Steeped in the Hoodoo spiritual tradition and organized via reimagined tarot cards, this collection becomes a chorus of unapologetic women who laugh, cry, mesmerize, and bring outsiders to their knees. Summoning the supernatural to examine death, rebirth, and life outside the male gaze, Amber McBride has crafted a haunting, spellbinding, and strikingly original collection of poems that reckon with the force and complexity of Black womanhood.
  • Published: 13 February 2024
  • ISBN: 9780593829561
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00
Categories:

Praise for Thick with Trouble

Praise for Me (Moth):

"With unmatched lyrical writing and a powerful plot, McBride is an absolute must-read author." —Buzzfeed

"Searing . . . a poignant and richly layered narrative. The story builds softly and subtly to a perfect, bittersweet ending."—School Library Journal (starred review)

"McBride artfully weaves Black Southern Hoodoo traditions with those of the Navajo/Diné people, creating a beautiful and cross-cultural reverence for the earth, its inhabitants, and our ancestors . . . this novel is hauntingly romantic, refusing to be rushed or put down without deep contemplation of what it means to accept the tragedies of our lives and to reckon with the ways we metamorphosize as a result of them." —Booklist (starred review)