Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry Political & Protest is also a searing and

is also a searing and complex portrait of male violence

between the pleasures of form and the pleasures of freedom in the unspooling of sentences over time

Francine is left wondering how to free herself from an incredibly hot but toxic entanglement

lugging cleaning supplies and giant black trash bags to her waiting minivan

By the time she left us in 2018

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry Political & Protest is also a searing andWinner of the 2019 PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction Winner of the Shilts Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Lorraine Hansberry, who died