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Hot Comb

by Ebony Flowers

NPR Books We Love · Recommendation

Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers appears in NPR’s 2019 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, family matters, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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