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.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 Jasmine Mans (P)2021 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

“Lyrical, vivid.” (Time)

“Each poem is a meditation on a moment, a memory, and a history that guides the reader through the experience of Black womanhood in a way I’ve not experienced before. These poems both explode and glimmer on the page. They demand to be read, to be shared, to be revisited time and time again.” (Clint Smith, number one New York Times best-selling author of How the Word Is Passed)

“[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)

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

Black women stand up!

I loved every part of this book but the poem about Chloe Bailey stopped me in my tracks. That poem was powerful! To be a black girl is not easy in America and the ones judging have no clue what our families have been thru. Our history our culture our suffering and they want to talk about a mermaid that was so deep!

Perfection

Read it. Listen to it. Repeat!! First, I purchased the audible, and then i purchased the book. Jasmine eloquently puts life's melody into words.

Brilliant Delicious

Her words and the warm thickness of her voice is like butterscotch candy. I KEEP LISTENING over and over and over! All the thumbs for Jasmine Mans

A must

Amazing all they way to the end and very well written. I wish it was longer. Excellent performance!!

Memorable!!

Performance impeccable, cultural stories, great book and a must read!! This book will be passed down for sure!