In a world that pushes you to whisper, it's time to wail.
If you love Andrea Gibson's raw tenderness and Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street honesty, you'll love this new edition of Wailing on Whisper Street.
Bree Bailey's popular collection is now in it's second edition with new poems added. This book is for the smart girls who cried harder at the bridge of a song than they ever let themselves cry in real life. It walks through divorce, heartbreak, and the exhausting comedy of love, lit and raising a kid alone.
This book does not lower its voice for any of it. Bailey writes as the Latina daughter, the broke kid, the bisexual woman who came out late because someone always needed her to be someone else first, and she survives all of it the way the funniest people always do, by finding the joke inside the wreckage.
This isn't a quiet grief book. It's the sound a woman makes when she finally stops apologizing and lives loudly.
If you've ever underlined a stranger's poem because it said the thing you'd been swallowing for years, get out your highlighters; this book is for you.
