Thick

<p><span><b>FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD</b></span></p><p><span><b>Named a notable book of 2019 by the <em>New York Times Book Review</em> <em>Chicago Tribune</em> <em>Time</em> and <em>The Guardian</em></b></span></p><p><span><b>As featured by <em>The Daily Show</em> <em>NPR</em> <em>PBS</em> <em>CBC</em> <em>Time</em> <em>VIBE</em> <em>Entertainment</em> <em>Weekly</em> <em>Well-Read Black Girl</em> and Chris Hayes "incisive witty and provocative essays" (<em>Publishers</em> <em>Weekly</em>) by one of the "most bracing thinkers on race gender and capitalism of our time" (Rebecca Traister)</b></span></p><p><span><b><em>Thick</em> is sure to become a classic. -<em>The New York Times Book Review</em></b></span></p><p>In eight highly praised treatises on beauty media money and more Tressie McMillan Cottom—award-winning professor and acclaimed author of <em>Lower Ed</em>—is unapologetically "thick": deemed "thick where I should have been thin more where I should have been less" McMillan Cottom refuses to shy away from blending the personal with the political from bringing her full self and voice to the fore of her analytical work. <em>Thick</em> "transforms narrative moments into analyses of whiteness black misogyny and status-signaling as means of survival for black women" (<em>Los Angeles Review of Books</em>) with "writing that is as deft as it is amusing" (Darnell L. Moore).</p><p>This "transgressive provocative and brilliant" (Roxane Gay) collection cements McMillan Cottom's position as a public thinker capable of shedding new light on what the "personal essay" can do. She turns her chosen form into a showcase for her critical dexterity investigating everything from <em>Saturday Night Live</em> LinkedIn and BBQ Becky to sexual violence infant mortality and Trump rallies.</p><p>Collected in an indispensable volume that speaks to the everywoman and the erudite alike these unforgettable essays never fail to be "painfully honest and gloriously affirming" and hold "a mirror to your soul and to that of America" (Dorothy Roberts).</p>