Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair

✍ Scribed by Ella McLeod

• Book ID: 115167963
• Publisher: little bee books
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 492 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781499816129

✦ Synopsis

Rapunzella is a genre-bending novel that weaves together a young girl's ordinary life and a wildlydangerous****fairytale universe, celebrating Black hair and the power of coming into your identity.
"Recasting classic fairy tales in the context of Blackness, the marvelous novel Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair celebrates Black women's solidarity and the magic that's innate in Black girls. . . . A love letter to Black women." Foreword, STARRED REVIEW
Zella is imprisoned in an enchanted forest made of her own Afro, and the might of the evil King Charming seems unstoppable. But is it? Can she use her power to change the future?
You're fifteen. You spend your time at school and at Val's hair salon with Baker, Val's son, who has eyes that are like falling off a cliff into space. The salon is a space of safety, but also of possibility and dreams. When you dream, you visit an enchanted forest full of friends and wonder. You...