You can pick up GATHER ME at Elizabeth's Bookshop & Writing Centre, our partner, or wherever you get books. You can find a link to this and all Onward Book Club selections at the link in my bio.

And Glory and I will see you one month from today for a conversation about this glorious memoir!

GATHER ME is a love letter to all the many books that helped Glory grow, kept her company, nourished her, allowed her to find her own voice. It's about finding home in the pages of strangers who felt like family, who became her teachers, who taught her resilience when her own home wasn't peaceful.

You may better know Glory as Well-Read Black Girl, her beloved platform which spotlights & celebrates books by Black female authors. She has alchemized her lifelong love of books into a literary festival, a popular book club, and a vibrant online community. It is all such a joy to behold.

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Every word, every sentence, every page is for all of us. Let’s go ❤️

ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER is my new memoir and it tells the whole story, to the very best of my capacity. I think Rayya would have liked it. She really, really liked being intimate, honest, difficult, and important! Happy birthday, baby. You are still a wild ride.

It took me seven years after her death to finally be able to tell our story — not least of all because it took me that long to even understand all that happened between us over the course of our long peaceful friendship and our short and riotous romance.

I would tell you to rest in peace, but I know that you always found peace boring. May you rest in excitement.”

Rayya was . . . A LOT. Full of contradictions, powerful, giving, loving, demanding, and (even to this day) difficult for me to fully explain or comprehend.

“She was my love, my heart, my best friend, my rebel, my angel, my protector, my challenger, my partner, my muse, my wizard, my surprise, my comet, my liberator, my rock star, my absolutely impossible non-cooperator, my otherworldly spiritual visitor, and my baby. I loved you so much, Rayya.

♥️

and join us on March 4th.

You can learn more about the Onward Book Club, browse OBC selections at our partner bookshop, Elizabeth's Bookshop & Writing Centre, and find my Instagram handle by clicking on the link in my bio!

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diver studying shipwrecks resulting from the transatlantic slave trade, what she learned about herself during her years of underwater exploration -- and what it's like to be "Explorer in Residence” at the National Geographic Society There is still time to get your hands on this extraordinary book,

Most of all — thank you to everybody who made the time to show up for the workshop, and for all the events! Thank you for your generous hearts and open minds. YOU ARE THE BEST!