Cover To Cover… ‘The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl’

There is life after high school. And were you ever happy to learn that! You couldn’t imagine spending the rest of your days feeling like you did at 13, or enduring a not-cool lifetime of zits, hormones, self-consciousness, bad hair, and mean girls.
You were only able to endure it then by remembering that you weren’t alone. And in “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl” by Issa Rae, life got better.
For much of her early childhood, Jo-Issa Diop never worried about being cool.
Coolness wasn’t an issue when, until age 3, she lived with her parents and her father’s extended family in his native Senegal. There, she was surrounded by loving aunts, uncles, and assorted cousins, all living within the family compound.