Review of "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker" on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
This got 5 stars for me because it was infinitely readable. When I was reading it, I didn't want to be doing anything else. When I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about reading it. Some of the essays were a little meandering for me, but he usually brought it around in the end.
What I liked most was how relatable a lot of his stories were even though I didn't have the same experiences. In fact, the essay where he's talking about how he has hood credentials that he doesn't want to use against the middle class black kids who are trying to be hood made me thank my mom for not letting me grow up poor. I will take my fake hood credentials over real ones any day!
