7/8/2023 0 Comments Cinderella is dead description![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She never fit in the box she was constantly being pushed into. This story follows Sophia, a 16-year-old girl who dreamed of being with a princess rather than a prince. She hit it out of the park with this queer dystopian Cinderella retelling, with the heroine being a determined and brave young Black woman. It wasn’t until I decided to write the books I wanted to see, the ones that showed Black girls in leading roles that my writing came alive, imbued with all the richness of my own culture and experiences, I felt like I’d found what I was meant to do.” “I wanted to write, and most of the stories I’d been exposed to only had Black or brown people, like me, as side characters. ![]()
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