Training School for Negro Girls

By: Camille Acker

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Janina Edwards

This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who's never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life's "training school" - with lessons on gentrification and respectability - and fight to create their own sense of space and self.

A Literary Hub pick of the ultimate books for fall.

©2018 Camille Acker (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

More than five stars

This book reminded me of a time in my youth, some of which I would rather forget. Growing up is not easy. This writer is masterful in taking the reader across a developmental journey of growing up black and female. I’m sure that people of other genders and cultures will also find this book a great read. From the youth of a school girl to the challenges of women hood the collection of short stories provided vivid pictures of what it’s like to be me, learning and developing, in the school for negro girls.

interesting

it was less a schooling, more of the complex dynamics sistahs find themselves, create for themselves, and are squished into. i do wish there was morals to each story conclusion or the lesson learned here was.... but still beautifully written.

Insightful

The stories said a lot while leaving plenty of room for thd reader to draw his(her) own conclusions.
Enjoyed it.

Short Story Series

An ok series of short stories about Black girls' experiences.
Worth reading, and can be finished in less than a day.

A BLACK GIRL/WOMAN MUST READ

It's was myself, my family, my wife, daughter, sister, mother spread across several pages. Awesome!