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There‘s no one quite like Kwame! This is a loving memoir of his life from childhood through writing success to his world travels, filled with recipes, love letters, and other remembrances. His miracle was getting reluctant readers all over the world to love reading bc of his unconventional poetry and writing style.

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Thank yoy Kwame Alexander for sharing this recipe! I can't wait to try others but this is my first go at dinner rolls and they came out great!

❤️❤️❤️❤️ another great collection! I love the letters and recipes in here too. It's so great example of memoir poetry. I picked it up as research for my own work but still very much enjoyed it. I gotta try some of the recipes, I'll share when I do.

I enjoyed this poet memoir! The structure was fascinating, bouncing between narration, letters, and yes, recipes (delicious!). A very solid read, though, I had the nagging feeling that this book was written for the authors daughters, and maybe things on the page shouldn't be for public consumption. I think that's a part of the point of the book, his mixed feelings about processing through writing, but it landed wrong for me.

Kwame is one of my favorite YA authors. He has a way of weaving words into beautiful tapestries. At first I thought the book would be more about his father, and while their relationship of father and son is included, it's more about Kwame as a father with his two daughters. Like most of us his life has been full of love and loss and he's continuing to learn to love (mostly himself) in spite of his loss.