![]() ![]() “Years later, I will be more informed but no better.” Fatima’s coming of age as a black woman is key to Heads: a meditation on the nuances of identity formation and how it’s complicated by identity markers (black, affluent) that defy entrenched social structures. ![]() She gets pointlessly competitive and obsessive with a person she doesn’t even know: “Years later, I will wonder why I competed with that woman in the class, why Christinia competed so much with me,” she narrates. From there, the saga turns fascinating Fatima reflects on her childhood as an adult, triggered by the appearance of a black woman in her yoga class who reminds her of Christinia. ![]() The moms take jabs at one another in increasingly absurd - perhaps to a fault - letters stuffed into their daughters’ backpacks, a competition over whose daughter is the real bully that descends into petty insult wars. The first tale, “Belles Letters,” is written in epistolary format between the two girls’ mothers. Early on, a string of stories connect the relationship between Fatima and Christinia, two black students in an otherwise white elementary school class who develop an adversarial dynamic. ![]()
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