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Growing Up, I was close to all the women in my family, particularly my mother. But our closeness depended on an unspoken understanding that we each, from time to time, needed to be left alone to deal with our own selves. My room was the sanctuary where, away from the cacophony of life and the loud-talking relatives downstairs, I could learn how to define myself before the world did it for me. My mother and I both kept stacks of journals, but we neither meddled in each other's diaries nor expressed the desire to do so. I wrote in them only when I was infatuated or heartbroken, and, for years,
I thought my mother kept her journals to remember relatives' telephone numbers, mailing addresses, and birthdays. It never occurred to me that she, too, was building and protecting a sense of self, until I asked her about it, just recently, after reading a short story. "It was a way to get my feelings out, " she told me, without feeling vulnerable to someone else. Diary writing for her was "like having a conversation," she said, but with herself.
(There is this story I want to talk about) The Story that prompted the question was the last in Helen Oyeyemi's new collection, "What Is Not Yours". The story is called "if a book is locked there's probably a good reason for that don't you think." The title is lowercase, and there is no question mark, perhaps to signal to the reader that the remark in the title is not looking for a response. The protagonist's name is Eva; early on, the narrator informs the reader that Eva is Black.(Which is Kind of a Shit name for a black girl)
At the data-analysis company where Eva Works!
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The Adventures of a Black Girl
AdventureThis Story is about a Black girl's life how she grows and how she lives in an American-African Home. She feels like she has her own culture and celebrates it Every Week | Every Month. She has here own diary which is full of her most kept secrets and...
