National Network for Equitable Library Service

For readers of Ross Gay and listeners of Therapy for Black Girls - A reflective examination of Black self-love and joy that guides the reader to ditch old beliefs, achieve difficult unlearnings, and redefine language, relationships, and love to find their own unique path to joy. A warm, candid, and essential book that will guide the reader to carve a new path to joy as unique as each individual. Created by the founder of Breathing Space Creative Literary Studio, acclaimed writer and editor Chelene Knight, Let It Go draws on personal experience and the advice of leaders from various Black communities to share hard-won tools for joy-discovery - tools such as how to say no with love; how to call back activities that feel good; how to reshape communication with those closest to you; how to revise language; and most of all, how to learn to let go in order to redefine what we think joy is. Organized around the seasons and the natural cycle of reflection and renewal, Let It Go showcases, through conversation and solitary reflection, the broad spectrum of Black realities and reveals the colorful kaleidoscope of joy and your own ways to find it.