Description: Title: Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be Author: Perkins, Nichole Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Binding: Paperback Pages: 272 Dimensions: 8.04h x 5.29w x 0.80d Product Weight: 0.56 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781538702741 "Hear the dark liquor of her laughter rippling behind her sentences" in this magnetic memoir as it explores a journalist's obsession with pop culture and the difficulty of navigating relationships as a Black woman through fanfiction, feminism, and Southern mores (Saeed Jones). A Roxane Gay Audacious Bookclub November Pick Named "Most Anticipated Books of 2021" by Buzzfeed and Lithub Pop culture is the Pandora's Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope -- all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through the media we consume. Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes readers on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media and the internet from the perspective of one southern Black woman. She explores her experience with mental illness and how the TV series Frasier served as a crutch, how her role as mistress led her to certain internet message boards that prepared her for current day social media, and what it means to figure out desire and sexuality and Prince in a world where marriage is the only acceptable goal for women. Combining her sharp wit, stellar pop culture sensibility, and trademark spirited storytelling, Nichole boldly tackles the damage done to women, especially Black women, by society's failure to confront the myths and misogyny at its heart, and her efforts to stop the various cycles that limit confidence within herself. By using her own life and loves as a unique vantage point, Nichole humorously and powerfully illuminates how to take the best pop culture has to offer and discard the harmful bits, offering a mirror into our own lives.
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Book Title: Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be
Item Length: 8in
Item Height: 1in
Item Width: 5.2in
Author: Nichole Perkins
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Women, Personal Memoirs
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Year: 2021
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 7.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
