{"product_id":"gather-me-a-memoir-in-praise-of-the-books-that-saved-me-hardcover","title":"Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGlory Edim\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"dramatic [and] ingeniously crafted\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e) memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A beautiful portrait of a full life that has been buoyed by an expansive and ever-growing love for words and for language.\"--Hanif Abdurraqib, author of \u003ci\u003eThere's Always This Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.\"--Toni Morrison, \u003c\/i\u003eBeloved \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor Glory Edim, that \"friend of my mind\" is books. Edim, who grew up in Virginia to Nigerian immigrant parents, started the popular Well-Read Black Girl book club at age thirty, eventually reaching a community of half a million readers. But her own love of books stretches far back. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdim's father moved back to Nigeria while she was still a child, marking the beginning of a series of traumatic changes and losses for her family. What became an escape, a safe space, and a second home for her and her brother was their local library. Books were where Edim found community, and as she grew older she discovered authors and ideas that she wasn't being taught about in class. Reading wherever and whenever she could, be it in her dorm room or when traveling by subway or plane, she found the Black writers whose words would forever change her life: Nikki Giovanni, through children's poetry cassettes; Maya Angelou, through a critical high school English teacher; Toni Morrison, while attending Morrison's alma mater, Howard University; Audre Lorde, on a flight to Nigeria. In prose full of both joy and heartbreak, Edim recounts how these writers and so many others taught her how to value herself by helping her to find her own voice when her mother lost hers, to trust her feelings when her father remarried, and to create bonds with other Black women and uplift their stories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGather Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a glowing testament to how the power of representation in literature can gather the disparate parts that make us who we are and assemble them into a portrait of discovery.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGlory Edim\u003c\/b\u003e is the founder of Well-Read Black Girl, a book club and digital platform that celebrates the uniqueness of Black literature and sisterhood. She edited the \u003ci\u003eWell-Read Black Girl \u003c\/i\u003eanthology, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and named a best book of the year by \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. The winner of the Innovator's Award from the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Prizes, Edim worked as a creative strategist for over ten years and serves on the board of New York City's Housing Works Bookstore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.08 x 8.53 x 5.77 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 29, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987441385773,"sku":"9780525619796","price":27.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/h36XtVqaEW9780525619796.webp?v=1776178723","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/gather-me-a-memoir-in-praise-of-the-books-that-saved-me-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}