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An Autobiography of Skin
- By: Lakiesha Carr
- Narrator: Kacie Rogers
- Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
This magisterial, intimate look at Black womanhood “follows three women whose various traumas haunt them literally and metaphorically, as it explores what it means to be a Black woman in America today” (The New York Times Book Review,... Read more
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