Black Girl Unlimited, Echo Brown
Black Girl Unlimited, Echo Brown
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Black Girl Unlimited
The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard

Author: Echo Brown

Narrator: Echo Brown

Unabridged: 8 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/14/2020


Synopsis

This program is read by the author

"Just brilliant."—Kirkus Reviews

Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence, depression, racism, and sexism—all through the arc of a transcendent coming-of-age story for fans of Renee Watson's Piecing Me Together and Ibi Zoboi's American Street.

Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side, where apartments are small and parents suffer addictions to the white rocks. Yet there is magic...everywhere. New portals begin to open when Echo transfers to the rich school on the West Side, and an insightful teacher becomes a pivotal mentor.

Each day, Echo travels between two worlds, leaving her brothers, her friends, and a piece of herself behind on the East Side. There are dangers to leaving behind the place that made you. Echo soon realizes there is pain flowing through everyone around her, and a black veil of depression threatens to undo everything she’s worked for.

Christy Ottaviano Books

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

About Echo Brown

Echo Brown is an author, performer, and playwright from Cleveland, Ohio. A Dartmouth alumna and the first female college graduate in her family, she is the author of Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard, which the New York Times praised as “a guidebook of survival and wonder.” Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, called Echo’s one-woman show, Black Virgins Are Not For Hipsters, “stunning and powerful.”


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lala

Sob City, population: me......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea

Wow, I sobbed. What a powerful book.......more

Goodreads review by Whitney

uhhhh who else here is crying?? this book had me weeping. i loved every page of it. from the metaphors to each chapter focusing on a different life lesson to echo's writing, this book was raw and meaningful. if i had read it as a teenager i think it would've gone so far over my head, which just show......more

UGH, I hate giving own voices books like this low ratings but Brown's editor needed to step up-GEEZ! Issues I had with This Book *This Book is in BAD need of an Editor-I appreciated what Brown was trying to do here but it muddied this otherwise important book. Brown tried to incorporate magical realis......more


Awards

  • School Library Best Books of the Year
  • YALSA William C. Morris - finalist
  • School Library Journal Best Books of the Year