It also endearingly charts her progress towards becoming a great reader and writer. With evocative and emotive detail Lorde captures the difficult process of establishing an independent state of being within the circles of family, friends, lovers, community and country. She charts her journey towards being proudly “Black, female, gay and out of the closet” in a time and society with widespread racism, sexism and homophobia. We follow her piercing observations of the world around her being raised in Harlem through to her independence and early adulthood in the 1950s. It's a process of understanding and defining herself as separate from the ways in which she has been categorized by her circumstances and the way other people view her. “Zami” draws on much of Audre Lorde's autobiographical experience to form what she calls a “biomythography”. However, they can also attune us to the challenges some face because of a particular individual's identity or circumstances. Great coming of age tales are enthralling because we can all relate to the awkward transition from childhood to adulthood.
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