Hooded: A Black Girl's Guide to the Ph.D.

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Having a voice means facing retaliation or dismissal while staying silent becomes a heavy burden all its own. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics, and a master’s degree and a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering. The famous characters in Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs and The Enormous Turnip are given new life and a sprinkle of modern magic. Her unique settings not only make the woods, the big bad wolf, and grandmother’s house come alive on the page, but they can also be transformed into a dancing play of shadows on a wall.

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Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. It is Pen's winning sanity and avid eye for absurdity - in the Church and in the bedroom - that keeps this confident, touching novel afloat. She has shown her transparency and allowed herself to be vulnerable in her book to help other Black women on their journey. Kathleen O’Brien, ‘Contemporary Caoineadh: Talking Straight Through the Dead’, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 32.

When paying by SEPA direct debit, you authorize us by issuing a corresponding SEPA mandate to collect the invoice amount from the specified account.Abigail Palko, Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature (London: Palgrave, 2016), Ch. Written for all those who have never seen themselves represented in their chosen career, Hooded provides practical survival strategies, mental health tips, and ideas for creating community and leaving a lasting legacy. The ubiquitous hood, she shows, is an artifact of human relationships with power, the state, and one another. In my second novel, Cara, the free spirit, and Pen, the stoic, craft a bond so strong it seems as though nothing could sever it, not even Cara’s infidelities.