The Black Joy Project -- Kleaver Cruz, Hardcover Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography - and more

- and more

Essie has always been very happy living there

With buoyant prose

wild and secretive

fresh and unpredictable

The Black Joy Project -- Kleaver Cruz, Hardcover Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography - and moreNAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Debut Author Featuring 117 full color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York meets The Black Book "A patchwork quilt of visually stunning images, captured moments of triumph, antidotes to trauma narratives and rich, ebullient emotional and verbal spice for the soul." Michael W. Twitty, culinary and cultural historian, and author