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    Homebodies: A Novel
    Homebodies: A Novel
    Homebodies: A Novel
    Audiobook10 hours

    Homebodies: A Novel

    Written by Tembe Denton-Hurst

    Narrated by Marcella Cox

    4/5

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    About this audiobook

    ""[A] sharp, charming and passionate debut."" —New York Times Book Review

    A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Elle, USA Today, Bustle, Ebony, Harper’s Bazaar, PopSugar, New York Post, The Skimm, and The Millions.

    A Best Book of 2023 by Marie Claire, Esquire, Vogue, them, Autostraddle, Betches, Gay Times, and Cosmopolitan.

    An insightful, propulsive, and deeply sexy debut novel about a young Black writer whose world is turned upside down when she loses her coveted job in media and pens a searing manifesto about racism in the industry.

    Mickey Hayward dreams of writing stories that matter, but, for now, her days are filled with listicles about lip gloss and click-bait articles about celebrity haircare. Still, the job is flashy and her girlfriend is steady and supportive. The path may be long, but Mickey’s well on her way, and it’s far from the messy life she left behind in Maryland. Everything finally seems to be falling into place—until she finds out she’s being replaced.

    Distraught and enraged, Mickey fires back with a detailed letter outlining the racism she’s endured as a Black woman in media, certain it will change the world for the better. But when her letter is met with overwhelming silence, even from her usually-encouraging girlfriend, Mickey is sent into a tailspin of self-doubt. Forced to reckon with just how fragile her life is, she flees to the last place she ever dreamed she would run: her hometown.

    Back home, Mickey is seduced by the simplicity of her hometown—and the flirtation of a former flame—but she soon learns that you can’t outrun your past. In the newfound quiet, she is forced to reflect on the sacrifices she’d made for an industry that never loved her back and pick up the pieces of the life she thought she’d left behind for good. After all, when the walls of success you’ve carefully built around yourself come crumbling down, what—and who—are you left with?

    A meditation on identity, self-worth and the toll of corporate racism, Homebodies is a portrait of modern Black womanhood with a protagonist you won’t soon forget.

    Editor's Note

    Highly anticipated…

    After putting up with a long string of microaggressions, Mickey Hayward, a queer Black journalist, is unceremoniously fired from her writing job. She lets loose about her experiences in an open letter, which goes ignored. It’s only after Mickey returns to her small hometown to reevaluate her life that the letter hits the public spotlight. A debut that describes the transgressions of the media industry with painful accuracy, “Homebodies” follows one young woman's reckoning with herself and where she fits in the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMay 2, 2023
    ISBN9780063274303
    Homebodies: A Novel
    Author

    Tembe Denton-Hurst

    Tembe Denton-Hurst (known on the internet as @tembae) is a book-obsessed beauty and culture writer and author. Currently, she works as a staff writer at New York magazine’s The Strategist, where she covers beauty, lifestyle, and books. When she’s not writing, Tembe can be found on her couch in Queens, where she lives with her partner and their two cats, Stella and Dakota. Homebodies is her debut novel.

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    • 3/5
      This book had the potential to be the best of all. I felt like there was some lacking in all aspects of the story. I liked it a few ways. I wish there was more of lex and Mickey and lex getting back together.? I feel like the story has ended in an abrupt manner. Maybe there's more to it..
    • 3/5
      If I wasn’t just listening to it while I drove to and from work, I wouldn’t have finished it. It was mundane and uninspiring. There’s no lessons, twists, or character growth.

      2 people found this helpful