9781620974377_

Bestselling genre: Witty essays and memoirs with a feminist/gender lens on politics and culture continue to be on the rise. Books like Bad Feminist (190,264), We Are Never Meeting in Real Life (32,810 copies), The Mother of All Questions (14,675), Not That Kind of Girl (273,381), and Too Much and Not the Mood (9,914), and We Should All Be Feminists (248,340) are all a testament to the tremendous potential of this book.
A popular critical voice in digital media spaces and beyond: Author is beloved by social media butterfliesand loathed by her trollsand is a force to be reckoned with on Black Twitter, where shes a cultural arbiter on economic policy one day and the latest pop culture controversy the next.
Features original essays plus expanded versions of well-known, provocative New York Times and Atlantic pieces:
How We Make Black Girls Grow Up Too Fast
Obamas Faith in White Folks
On Black Beauty
High-profile fans: McMillan Cottom is adored by notable public thinkers from Roxane Gay to Ruth Milkman to Ta-Nehisi Coates. Gay is a particularly big fan who (has gone and) will go the extra mile to promote the author and her work.

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FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

Named a notable book of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Time, and The Guardian

As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and Chris Hayes, "incisive, witty, and provocative essays" (Publishers Weekly) by one of the "most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time" (Rebecca Traister)

Thick is sure to become a classic. The New York Times Book Review

In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottomaward-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Edis unapologetically "thick": deemed "thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have been less," McMillan Cottom refuses to shy away from blending the personal with the political, from bringing her full self and voice to the fore of her analytical work. Thick "transforms narrative moments into analyses of whiteness, black misogyny, and status-signaling as means of survival for black women" (Los Angeles Review of Books) with "writing that is as deft as it is amusing" (Darnell L. Moore).

This "transgressive, provocative, and brilliant" (Roxane Gay) collection cements McMillan Cottoms position as a public thinker capable of shedding new light on what the "personal essay" can do. She turns her chosen form into a showcase for her critical dexterity, investigating everything from Saturday Night Live, LinkedIn, and BBQ Becky to sexual violence, infant mortality, and Trump rallies.

Collected in an indispensable volume that speaks to the everywoman and the erudite alike, these unforgettable essays never fail to be "painfully honest and gloriously affirming" and hold "a mirror to your soul and to that of America" (Dorothy Roberts).

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