Training School for Negro Girls

11 Ratings: 3.7
Duration: 5H 42min
Language: English
Format
Category: Short stories

This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who’s never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life’s “training school”―with lessons on gentrification and respectability—and fight to create their own sense of space and self.

Release date

Audiobook: January 8, 2019

Training School for Negro Girls

11 Ratings: 3.7
Duration: 5H 42min
Language: English
Format
Category: Short stories

This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who’s never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life’s “training school”―with lessons on gentrification and respectability—and fight to create their own sense of space and self.

Release date

Audiobook: January 8, 2019