Eat Yo Own Spaghetti

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Eat Yo Own Spaghetti: Reflections on Life Love and Reclaiming Your Power</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a bold intimate collection of essays about choosing yourself and reclaiming your story after life love or loss tries to take it from you.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Blending memoir metaphor and cultural critique Courtney Shelley reclaims the infamous spaghetti spell trope. Once framed as a woman's desperate attempt to bind a man to her Shelley turns it inward: eat your own spaghetti bind yourself to yourself. Across twenty-nine chapters she explores heartbreak betrayal grief joy and rebirth showing how the act of self-reclamation becomes its own kind of spell.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Rooted in Black womanhood her voice is sharp vulnerable and deeply affirming. She speaks to anyone who has ever stayed too long loved too hard or doubted their own strength. Perfect for readers of Glennon Doyle's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Untamed</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> or bell hooks' </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>All About Love</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> this book is a mirror a challenge and an invitation: claim your softness honor your story and make your own plate.</span></p><p></p><p></p>