Pretty Format:Hardcover #2 Pages: 304

#2 Pages: 304

With the civil rights movement in full swing

and machine‑level pace –– feeding into the same engine that enslaved millions into brutal labor for its own relentless benefit

But when Imani discovers signs that her brother may be alive and spreading the nation’s magic to outsiders

a teen struggles between her upper middle class upbringing and her desire to fully connect with so-called black culture

Pretty Format:Hardcover #2 Pages: 304By a prize winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race. Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspectivethe tropes, the presumptionsPretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change. I should be able to define myself, but I am not. Not by any governmental or cultural body, Brookins writes.