Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard
Written by Echo Brown
Narrated by Echo Brown
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
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
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.”
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Reviews for Black Girl Unlimited
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Out of words. It really spoke to me. Thanks Echo
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow I sobbed even during the acknowledgements, a must read ????
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Spectacular book which only enhanced by the author herself narrating it. Such open vulnerable story about life of a girl, a girl at intersection of being Black, poor and sexual assault survivor. Beautiful book that holds so much power and so much heart. Highly recommend!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beautifully crafted. I hope this finds it’s way to as many people as possible, on to school syllabuses and is adapted into a movie or show. It’s a story that everyone would benefit from.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was a mgical and heartbreaking ride, beautifully written and hopeful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is absolutely brilliant! Everyone should read this. And, I mean everyone.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5BY FAR, the best book I've ever read! It touched my spirit.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brilliant but devastating, be prepared for tears but above all admiration.