Bright Young Adult a National Book Award Finalist

a National Book Award Finalist and New York Times best-selling author

Essays on racial flashpoints

and fully embodied to heal from heartbreak and walk the path of liberation

and who is allowed to be the hero of any history

For African American children

Bright Young Adult a National Book Award FinalistThe highly anticipated, first full length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino. Bright: A Memoir, the first full length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino, is a work of lyric nonfiction, offering glimpses of a life lived between cultural worlds. Bright, a slang term used to describe light skinned people of interracial American ancestry, becomes the starting point for an extended meditation on the authors upbringing in a