![]() ![]() I could do it: As somebody who went to a private school with four Black kids, I was accustomed to assimilating to engage with something. Having to translate the experience for myself and how I engage the world. “The reason it was so powerful to me as a Black person is that I was accustomed to engaging with stories and having to imagine myself in them. ![]() “I’ve never felt so seen by a movie,” she says of the 2018 Marvel film. But until she saw the film “Black Panther,” she didn’t see herself in the stories she loved. The Houston native loved adventures, magical narratives and dystopian near futures with cunning villains and heroes who rise. The tale Jess Elle recounts is a common one, so she flipped it and told a new story. Wings of Ebony is the debut novel by Houston native J. ![]()
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