A review by scoodle42
Training School for Negro Girls by Camille Acker

3.0

This was an engaging read. The stories pushed all the right buttons in terms of interest; I cared about the characters, and wanted to know what would happen with them. They all read like different versions of the same person, rather than different people entirely, but maybe because they shared the same pain. The deep discomfort of being both desperate to know who you are, but also desperately wanting to be something other than that is a prevalent theme that each character expresses fully, a few of them in the same way.

Also, having lived in the DMV for twelve years, I understood all the location references which I think made it an even easier read. Lol.