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A powerful and inspired collection of essays and real-world advice on style, beauty, and motherhood from the popular blogger LaTonya Yvette

LaTonya Yvette, the blogger and stylist behind the eponymous site, is unapologetically candid about life’s trials, including motherhood, love, death, and racism. Her first book, Woman of Color, is part memoir, part lifestyle guide—packed with moving essays, gorgeous original and archival photographs, and practical style and beauty advice. At the very heart, though, it’s about LaTonya’s experience growing up as a woman of color in Brooklyn.

Each beautifully designed chapter covers a different topic—the meaning behind her name, how vitiligo has shaped her definition of beauty, her childhood hairstyles, raising her children as a 20-something mom—and ends with thoughtful advice and lifestyle takeaways like how to tie a headwrap or incorporate new, bold colors into your wardrobe. Woman of Color is real life, real style for women from all walks of life. In it, LaTonya has written a love letter to women, filling this book with vulnerable, imperfect truths from a black woman blogger, a voice not often seen on bookstore shelves.

BIO

LaTonya Yvette is a multimedia storyteller who writes the newsletter “With Love, L.” Yvette’s first book, Woman of Color, was included in an installation of Jay-Z’s personal bookshelf for Brooklyn Public Library’s Book of HOV exhibit. She also co-authored the illustrated children’s book The Hair Book with Amanda Jane Jones. Yvette is the owner and steward of The Mae House, an upstate New York rental property and the home of Rest as Residency, which offers BIPOC families a no-cost place for rest and focus.

REVIEWS

LaTonya’s book, like LaTonya herself, defies definition. It’s one part memoir, one part style guide, one part glimpse into the kind of everyday magic that anyone who knows LaTonya has experienced in real time. In these pages, LaTonya tells her own story with clarity and strength at the same time that she invites other women into the room to share theirs. In her characteristic style, LaTonya portrays a world that’s bright, colorful, exuberant, and nuanced. She reminds us of the tools we have at our fingertips to access joy, honor pain, navigate loss, and ultimately, to triumph.” --  Erin Boyle, creator of Reading My Tea Leaves

"Woman of Color is eloquently written, capturing a raw and beautiful truth that will leave you with a bit of magic as you flip through the pages. Intertwined with identity, storytelling, and becoming, LaTonya’s voice and shared experience are necessary. This body of work is a must-have.” -- Alexandra Elle, author of Words from a Wanderer and Neon Soul, 

"LaTonya Yvette has won over legions of fans with her remarkable ability to explore the ‘funky in-between’ versions of herself as a woman and a mother, and this book delivers on that richness times a thousand. Equal parts vulnerable and empowering, practical and poetic, gorgeous to look at and gritty to read, it’s the kind of book you’ll want to keep on your nightstand—so you’re always an arm’s length from someone who gets it." -- Jenny Rosenstrach, writer/creator of the website and book Dinner

[H]  Abrams  /  April 2, 2019

0.88" H x 9.38" L x 7.25" W (1.44 lbs) 224 pages