Something Better than Home: A Review

My review of Something Better than Home originally appeared at The BLLC Review. 

Something Better than Home by Leona Beasley is coming of age story about a young Black lesbian growing up in the post-Civil Rights era South. At first glance this book doesn’t seem like young adult fiction, but it is, and I wish that it had been labeled as such. Stories like Onnie Armstrong’s are scarce but necessary and the potential for reaching the young people who NEED to read this book might be greater if it...