narrator

I’ve never felt my femininity to be particularly close at hand, and certainly on “Pure Heroine,” I don’t think there’s any gender attached to that narrator.

The judges said: "A road trip chronicle, a book about sickness, a basketball novel, a family saga, and a story about how we say goodbye, with a ridiculously relatable narrator."

“Listeners who find a voice they like will listen to books they hadn’t considered before because they want that narrator to tell them a story.”

And yet, still, it swings and it moves, because the narrator is also moving forward: “It was so long ago,” she sings.

The narrator watches a slave owner beat and hang a Black man who stole a pencil so that James could write something.