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Harkening back to literary greats like Ann Petry and Kristin Hunter, Kerika Fields' With Your Bad Self is an emotional knockout. In Marie, we meet a woman whose desires were curtailed, but never killed, allowing us to interrogate the true natures of loss, liberation, and love. With an ear fine-tuned to the intricacies of language, and a compassionate heart calibrated to the many meanings of longing, Fields reminds us that life, though never perfect, can be a beautiful dance if we only allow ourselves to move with, and not against, it. I couldn't love this book more if I tried. -- Mateo Askaripour, author of Black Buck

'Harkening back to literary greats like Ann Petry and Kristin Hunter, Kerika Fields' WITH YOUR BAD SELF is an emotional knockout. In Marie, we meet a woman whose desires were curtailed, but never killed, allowing us to interrogate the true natures of loss, liberation, and love. With an ear fine-tuned to the intricacies of language, and a compassionate heart calibrated to the many meanings of longing, Fields reminds us that life, though never perfect, can be a beautiful dance if we only allow ourselves to move with, and not against, it. I couldn't love this book more if I tried.' - Mateo Askaripour, author of Black Buck

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Kerika Fields is a New York-based writer and photographer whose work has been published and exhibited widely. Her articles have appeared in Essence, Variety, VIBE, and The Source, among others. She is also the author of ""He's Gone...You're Back: The Right Way to Get Over Mr. Wrong"" (Kensington Publishing). ""With Your Bad Self"" is her first book with Jacaranda Books. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her daughter, husband, and cat Smokey. Visit her at Withyourbadself.com

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