![]() ![]() ![]() A virtuosic work of scholarship that recovers fragments of the lives of women who were supposed to be forgotten. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments offers a blistering critique of historical archives as the singular or even most authoritative source of credible knowledge - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor * Los Angeles Review of Books * Brilliant. mode is intimate, radical and always alive to the details - Leslie Jamison * New York Times Book Review * A radical, genre-defying examination of the lives of 'ordinary' young Black women. Thrilling to read because it invents a genre as deft and adventurous as the lives it chronicles - Sam Huber * The Nation * Kaleidoscopic.In granting these forgotten women a voice, and conjuring their longing for freedom, Hartman resists the century-long diminution of their lives to social problems.The result is an effect more usually associated with fiction than history, of inspiring a powerful imaginative empathy - not only towards characters in the distant past but towards the strangers all around us, whose humanity we share - Joanna Scutts * New Republic * I was inspired, surprised and deeply moved. ![]()
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