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    A Year in Reading: Naima Coster

    by Naima Coster Dec 03, 2021 4 minutes

    I gave birth to my daughter in 2019, we were sequestered in our Brooklyn apartment in 2020, and the isolation of the pandemic and early motherhood in those years changed the way I read. I am a more appetitive reader now, desperate for the company and consolation of books. But I’m also pickier and discard partially read books with no regret and, sometimes, eagerness. I have books of my own to write, a child with a runny nose that keeps her in and out of daycare, and an unrelenting desire to lie in bed and do not a damn thing. 

    The first book I read in 2021 was by , an arresting debut story collection about girlhood, desire, and embodiment. It hooked me

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