Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

Bless the Blood: A Cancer MemoirA searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early twenties, for fans of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals and Laurie Halse Anderson's Shout. When Walela is diagnosed at twenty three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who dont use their correct pronouns, and hordes of "well

he expects them to catch a flight out of the inhospitable coastal Maine backwoods within a week’s time

was just down the stairs

JAIDAH O'NEAL had to deal with the heartbreak he dealt out

While dealing with pertinent issues like identity

In other words: fully rounded human beings living complicated lives

Olaudah Equiano and Harriet Jacobs

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What an accomplished debut

which holds this book like a canopy

the newest starlet of Tinsel Town

In America Behind the Color Line

these films also engage with personal issues as complex as love