Description: Descended from a Black and Mexican father and a white mother, Savala Trepczynski knows what it means to live in the in-between. She has been painfully thin and truly fat, she has lived in poverty and in wealth. It is these liminal spaces--of race, class, and body type--that these essays present a clear and nuanced understanding of our society's most intractable points of tension.
Brief description: Savala Nolan is an essayist and director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. She and her writing have been featured in Vogue, Time, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, and more. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Review Quotes:
"Trepczynski takes us from the personal to the political and back again as she explores her fascinating range of experiences as a Black American woman."
-- "Emily Bernard, author of Black Is the Body"