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Unreliable Narrator

Unreliable Narrator

Florence, Ayanna

Paperback

Series: Button Poetry

General ParentingGeneral PoetrySelf-Help

Publisher Price: $18.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 26, 2027

ISBN10: 1638341524
ISBN13: 9781638341529
Publisher: Button Poetry
Published: Jan 26 2027
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Beautifully off-kilter, unreliable narrator asks what it means to survive a story you cannot trust yourself to tell.

Ayanna Florence's debut full-length poetry collection is steeped in the horrors and wonders of womxnhood. It speaks from the place where victimhood and madness meet for a queer Black girl. Across its three sections, Florence writes about abuse, mental illness, heartbreak, and the unstable relationship between memory and truth. She returns again and again to memory: what it holds, what it changes, and what happens when you are no longer sure you can trust it.

These poems move between confidence and doubt. They make room for anger, vulnerability, desire, and joy without forcing pain into a clean story of recovery. Even the tender moments carry the sense that something underneath has cracked.

unreliable narrator names the harm that has been done without allowing that harm to have the final word. It is a reclamation of self, an exploration of what self-love can look like on the other side, and the fight to tell your own story.

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