Wearing My Mother's Heart
Candlewick Press · Hardcover · October 10, 2023
Performance poet Sophia Thakur offers a powerful new collection touching on intergenerational relationships, finding your voice, and what it means to be a woman.
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- Who it’s for
- Poems connect women’s histories with the questions of identity, voice, and self-love facing women today.
- Themes
- Intergenerational relationships, Identity and self-love, Finding your voice
- Genres
- Poetry for Teens, Girls & Women, Multigenerational Families
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Performance poet Sophia Thakur offers a powerful new collection touching on intergenerational relationships, finding your voice, and what it means to be a woman. In her heartfelt second poetry collection, Sophia Thakur takes us on an emotionally charged journey through the lives of women in the past and considers what it means to be a woman today.
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Exploring topics such as identity, race, politics, mental health, and self-love, she weaves together the voices of a grandmother, mother, and daughter and examines how previous generations have given us the freedom to speak out. Encompassing love from first crush to breakup, as well as the history that comes before us and the brave moments that make us, this collection will resonate with all young women as they approach the joys and pain of adulthood.
Voices Across Generations
Poems connect women’s histories with the questions of identity, voice, and self-love facing women today.
Come here for
- A grandmother, mother, and daughter’s voices in conversation
- Reflections on race, politics, mental health, and love
Expect
- An emotionally charged poetry collection
- Past and present meeting in questions of womanhood
Where it sits
| Multigenerational Families | 94% |
|---|---|
| Poetry for Teens | 72% |
| Girls & Women | 55% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Multigenerational Families
- Girls & Women
- Poetry for Teens
- Authors
- Sophia Thakur
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Published
- October 10, 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Intergenerational relationships · Identity and self-love · Finding your voice
- Reading lane
- Multigenerational Families