How to sit
Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Memoir. Finalist for the 2019 PEN America Open Book Award. Second Edition. HOW TO SIT: A MEMOIR IN STORIES AND ESSAYS, when viewed in its entirety, plays with the line between fiction and nonfiction as it explores adolescence, identity, grief, and the transition between girlhood and womanhood for a young black woman seeking to ground herself when all she wants is to pretend her world is fantasy.