Description

Florence's poems take all the ugliest things we see in ourselves and name them beautiful and worthy of expression.

In a world where black women are negatively portrayed for expressing their feelings, unreliable narrator seeks to relinquish the shame surrounding emotional vulnerability and to empower the sensitive black girl within. Told in three parts, Ayanna Florence's debut full length poetry collection is a surgical analysis of victimhood, trauma, and triumph through the lens of personal experience. It is a reclamation of self, a battle cry in the face of harm, a rejoicing despite the pain. This book gives us permission to be angry, to be sad, to be joyful, and to be unapologetic about all of it. Rooted in brutal honesty and fearlessness, unreliable narrator confronts topics such as abuse, mental illness, and heartbreak head on and judgement free. This is not where we come to be pretty and perfect for the benefit of those who seek to destroy us. This is where we come to heal.