A review by blacksentai
Conception by Kalisha Buckhanon

4.0

This is a weird one. It's definitely the story of black girls in the 90s and the shit that goes through their lives. What I love is that this book could only be written by a black woman. It deals with intense subject matter in a way that only works if you're very familiar with what you're writing about. It deals in subtleties and actualities of life without falling into steretypes in any way. It's awesome. The weird thing is that large portion of this book that takes place from am unborn character. Not a fetus (and not any political statement about abortions or anything) but an conscious spirit thing that recounts the awful life of a slave woman and gives insight into the hard lives of pregnant black women in various circumstances. It's done really really well.