A review by nuhafariha
You Get What You Pay For by Morgan Parker

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

Thanks Random House and Netgalley for the Advanced Reader's Copy!

Now available.

There are no words to describe what a gift Morgan Parker's You Get What You Pay For is as a collection. Weaving the personal and political, Parker discusses how enslavement and colonization continue to impact race and social structure in the US to this very day. She grapples with the trauma and inheritance of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and the shortfalls of reparations. Some musings can get a little dense, but overall this book is a detailed and precise interrogation of what it means to be a Black woman in America.