Rebecca Carroll is a writer, cultural critic, and host of the podcasts Come Through with Rebecca Carroll (WNYC Studios), and Billie Was a Black Woman. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Essence, New York magazine, and The Guardian, where she was a regular columnist for two years. A former cultural critic for WNYC, and critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times, she is an editor-at-large for The Meteor media collective, as well as the author of several interview-based books about race in America, including the award-winning Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and so
"Gorgeous and powerful... In nuanced and richly textured scenes, Carroll reminds us how identity, particularly racial identity, is forged in a thousand different moments... Carroll writes with the urgency and persuasiveness of someone whose life is hanging in the balance, and the result is raw and affecting." - The New York Times Book Review "Carroll unearths complex, uncomfortable truths about legacy and parenthood in her memoir... Her voice is generous, intimate, searching, and formidable, her story excavated from her core and delivered with fervor and clarity." - The Boston Globe "Should be required reading."-People "Searing....In this vulnerable and layered meditation on race, adoption, and family, chosen and otherwise, Carroll unspools a poignant story of becoming." - Esquire "A probing, wise investigation of racial identity... The narrative, which reflects the author's 'decades-long, self-initiated rite of passage, ' is a blunt, urgent study of racial identity. A deeply resonant memoir of hard-won authenticity." - Kirkus Review (starred review)
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