Zami

A black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, an intoxicating whirlwind of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market crash, fried bananas, stories from her parents' native Granada. Walking to the public school on the snowy sidewalks, she realizes that she is tongue tied, that she is legally blind, and that her older sisters have left her behind. She continues to stumble through the pain and loneliness of adolescence, but then toward happiness in friendship, work, and sex, from Washington Heights to Mexico, always changing, always strong. This is the story of Audre Lorde, a passionate and uplifting tale of independence, love, work, strength, sexuality, and change. This is the first and only novel by Lorde, one of the seminal voices of African-American feminism.