Black Girl, Call Home

By: Jasmine Mans

Narrated by: Jasmine Mans

A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Oprah Magazine • Vulture • Essence • Elle • Cosmopolitan • Real Simple • Refinery 29 • She Reads • The Everygirl • Career Contessa

“You are carrying in your hands a Black woman’s heart.”—Jericho Brown, author of Pulitzer Prize winner The Tradition

“[Mans’] lucid and lyrical lines are as undeniable as those of a pop song yet as arresting as only spoken word artistry can be.”—O, the Oprah Magazine

From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer identity.

With echoes of Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez, Mans writes to call herself—and us—home. Each poem explores what it means to be a daughter of Newark, and America—and the painful, joyous path to adulthood as a young, queer Black woman.

Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering Black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing.


* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of images from the book.

Amazing a book everyone should feel..

This is a book worth buying there were some poems so strong so deep so true it’s very touching . The performance of the person who reads the audio book was very nice . Definitely buying a physical copy to keep around!

Must read!

Listen.. this book not only awakens you to black culture and black history, but it also educates you on just how corrupt, biased and evil American practices were and still are to this day. It lays it on you gentle enough to accept it, but real and blunt enough for you to understand exactly what happened instead of sugar coating our history. Love you all my beautiful black people! ❤️

Thank you for seeing me

You echoed the lives of so many of us. Many of these poems caused tingles in my body and my blood to run cold, causing me to remember what I hoped to forget. Thank you Jasmine, I will hold these poems dear in this life and the next.

The narration, the delivery the poetry.

I have been a fan of Jasmine Mans since strivers row, and she has only gotten better with time. This book touches on so many aspects of black life and culture, it felt deep and personal.
Absolutely beautiful.

Love!

I mostly love how relatable it is. I want a second book of it. Pure Bliss