Activist and model Munroe Bergdorf has been a powerful voice in interviews and podcast appearances in recent years, offering honesty and intimacy in her words and conversations. Now, she’s released her debut book, a non-fiction collection with the same affirming frankness.
Through a gripping, validating introduction and spanning six subsequent sections each based around a particular theme, such as adolescence and race, Bergdorf offers insight and personal experience to argue that each of us experiences transition in our lives and it is this that permits growth, self-affirmation, and authenticity. This processual emphasis in Bergdorf’s narrative, together with her truthful sharing of her own pivotal life experiences and societal truths makes for an impactful and vital piece of writing. Transitional offers autobiographical narratives with illuminating guidance on how we can heal from past events and build on the connections surrounding us.
A beautiful message of the book’s closing pages is the acknowledgement of the present and our road to happiness, peace, and fulfilment rather than reaching for an impossible perfection in the distant future. Bergdorf possesses a momentous strength within her writing whilst bringing to the forefront pivotal questions regarding identity, visibility, and living your truth.
She reflects on her own transitions in life to becoming her authentic self, concurrently advocating for an empowering, celebratory conflation of intersectionality and purposiveness with grace and strength as we grow, positing what this means for the world around us along the way.
Transitional, Munroe Bergdorf (Dialogue)
Price: £16.99. Info: here
words CHLOË EDWARDS
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