🔅Thank you to @amazonbooks for the Amazon First Reads edition of this e-ARC! 

🔅Publication date: April 1st, 2022

🔅If you’re privy to the recent criticism of media’s attention/lack of attention on missing girls and women of certain race and ethnic groups then this book is for you!

Authors create a very realistic story of the struggles of finding any information missing black women - since they have been labeled runaways, “troubled”, “junkies” and have gotten what was coming to them. 

This is of course a fictional narrative but the parallels with current events is apparent and important. The nationwide shoulder-shrug that happens when a black woman goes missing inspired @ourblackgirls, an organization highlighting the tens of thousands of missing black girls and women who’ve never had their story told. 

🔅@npr did an article on them on September 24th, 2021 titled “Tens Of Thousands Of Black Women Vanish Each Year. This Website Tells Their Stories.” Check them out and read @dredamitchell and Ryan Carter’s new novel, Say Her Name.