Training School for Negro Girls

Training School for Negro Girls

By Camille Acker
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“The life experience of Acker’s Washingtonian women is broad…but they all share a shrewd understanding of the narrow perceptions they face as black women. When underestimated they’re often fiercely, beautifully unyielding.”

New York Times

A Literary Hub Pick of the Ultimate Books for Fall

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.