A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
Essays on Kentucky, Black life, land, memory, class, regional identity, and the difficult work of returning home.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
It resists belonging reduced to interpersonal acceptance by restoring land, history, labor, and power to the question. The collection shows how place can wound, form, exclude, and still remain an object of love.
Good starting place if…
You want to explore home, land, race, class, migration, memory, and return through Black feminist cultural criticism and personal essay.
Know before you begin…
hooks writes from her Kentucky origins and a particular Black Southern experience while moving across memoir and social critique. The essays are intentionally situated and should not be made to represent every experience of place or belonging.