Zami : A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World

'If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive'

A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem, weak and half-blind. On she stumbles - through teenage pain and loneliness, but then to happiness in friendship, work and sex, from Washington Heights to Mexico, always changing, always strong.

 This is Audre Lorde's story.