"With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way towards womanhood. Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women, and teenage girls. In Shire's hands, lives spring into fullness. This is noisy life: full of music and weeping and surahs and sirens and birds. This is fragrant life: full of blood and perfume and shisha smoke and jasmine and incense. This is polychrome life: full of henna and moonlight and lipstick and turmeric and kohl"-- Provided by publisher.

Machine generated contents note:WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU -- Extreme Girlhood -- Assimilation -- My Loneliness Is Killing Me -- Home -- Bless Maymuun's Mind -- Dahabshiil Sends Blessings -- Bless the Bulimic -- Bless the Ghost -- Drowning in Dawson's Creek -- Bless the Qumayo -- Lullaby for Father -- Filial Cannibalism -- Bless Your Ugly Daughter -- THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG -- Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle -- Are You Afraid of the Dark? -- Photographs of Hooyo (Harlesden, 1990-2000) -- Bless the Camels -- Glitter on the Mouth of Boys -- Unbearable Weight of Staying -- Absolutely Fabulous -- Hooyo Full of Grace -- My Father, the Astronaut -- Saint Hooyo -- Bless Our CCTV Star -- Joyride -- Backwards -- Bless the Real Housewife -- ARE YOU THERE, GOD? -- Hooyo Isn't Home -- The Abubakr Girls Are Different -- Bless This School for Girls -- Bless Hooyo's Kohl-Rimmed Eyes -- Bless the Sharmuto -- Bless the Moon -- The Baby-Sitters Club -- Trichotillomania -- Bless This House -- Angela Bassett Burning It All Down -- Bless the Blood -- Buraanbur -- TESTAMENT -- To Swim with God -- Her Blue Body Full of Light -- Bless Our Blue Bodies -- Earth to Yosra -- Victoria in Illiyin -- Grief Has Its Blue Hands in My Hair -- Bless the Gun Tossed into a River -- Barwaaqo -- Bless Grace Jones -- Nail Technician as Palm Reader.