Memories of Girlhood
 
bell hooks. 
 
Henry Holt: 1996. Hardcover in a jacket. First edition. Near fine. 
 
"I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and forms in all my work. Without telling everything that happened, they document all that remains most vivid. They are the foundation on which I have built a life in writing, a life committed to intellectual pursuits. Laying out the groundwork of my early life like a crazy quilt, Bone Black brings together fragments to make a whole."