Where Sleeping Girls Lie

by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

With Where Sleeping Girls Lie, I write to young girls who feel so much anger, and need desperately for someone or something to tell them their rage is important, and that the capacity to heal from deep wounds is not at all impossible.

It was like constantly being haunted by herself, with no reprieve from the ghosts inside her.

There was no instruction manual for ridding yourself of your own self.

“They say terrible things are done in darkness, but terrible things are also done in a light too blinding for anyone else to look at directly.” —Dear Senthuran, Akwaeke Emezi