{"product_id":"gather-me-a-memoir-in-praise-of-the-books-that-saved-me-by-glory-edim","title":"Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me - By Glory Edim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGather Me:\u003cbr\u003eA Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBy Glory Edim\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Ballantine Books\u003cspan\u003e (2024)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN-13: \u003cspan\u003e9780525619796\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePages: 288\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGenre(s): Biography \u0026amp; Memoir, Society \u0026amp; Culture, Black\/African American Interest\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn inspiring memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of \u003cem\u003eWell-Read Black Girl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”\u003c\/em\u003e—Toni Morrison\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Glory Edim, that \"friend of my mind\" is books. Edim, who grew up in Virginia to Nigerian immigrant parents, started the popular \u003cem\u003eWell-Read Black Girl \u003c\/em\u003ebook club at age thirty eventually reaching a community of half a million other readers. But her love of books stretches far back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Edim's father moved back to Nigeria while she was still a child, she and her brothers were left with a single mother and little money, often finding a safe space at their local library. Books were where Edim found community, and as she grew older, she discovered authors and ideas she wasn't being taught in class.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn dorm rooms and airplanes and on subway rides, she found the Black writers whose words would forever change her life: Nikki Giovanni through children's poetry cassettes; Maya Angelou through a critical high school English teacher; Toni Morrison while attending Morrison's alma mater, Howard University; Audre Lorde on a flight to Nigeria. In prose full of both joy and heartbreak, Edim recounts how these writers and so many others helped her to value herself: to find her own voice when her mother lost hers, to trust her feelings when her father remarried, to create bonds with other Black women and uplift their stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGather Me\u003c\/em\u003e is a glowing testament to the power of representation and the lasting impact of literature to gather our disparate parts and put them back together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"VERGE Lifestyle Publications Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ Biography","offer_id":47644334030997,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1226\/6958\/files\/GatherMe-AMemoirinPraiseoftheBooksThatSavedMe-ByGloryEdim_HardcoverBook.png?v=1785431007","url":"https:\/\/www.vergeonlinemag.com\/products\/gather-me-a-memoir-in-praise-of-the-books-that-saved-me-by-glory-edim","provider":"VERGE Lifestyle \u0026 Urban Culture Magazine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}