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Sasha Bonét

@sasha-bonet.bsky.social
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writer, cultural critic, author of The Waterbearers www.sashabonet.com

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(Screams From The) Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This is one of the Strata-East albums that has NOT yet been reissued. Check out the name of the last track on Side 2.
The Cosmic Twins (Ron Burton and John Lewis) - The Waterbearers album cover. A black and white photo of two black men in sleeveless shirts smiling in front of a background of stars.The Waterbearers Side A LP label:
Back to Back/The Waterbearers
Lysistrata
A Letter to MomThe Waterbearers Side B label:
For Don Byas and Ben Webster
Fertility Dance/Kente
One for O.J. (Simpson)
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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Sasha Bonét on Black Motherhood, Fragmented Storytelling, and Untangling History: I met my former MFA classmate Sasha Bonét on Admitted Student Night in the spring of 2014. I recognized her as a force of nature on sight. It couldn’t be more fitting that her new… #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
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Sasha Bonét on Black Motherhood, Fragmented Storytelling, and Untangling History
I met my former MFA classmate Sasha Bonét on Admitted Student Night in the spring of 2014. I recognized her as a force of nature on sight. It couldn’t be more fitting that her new book finds her tracing the footsteps of the forbears who poured into her and dashing cold water on misconceptions about […]
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
There’s a theme that’s recurring throughout Sasha Bonét’s memoire and debut, THE WATERBEARERS: the reality that love and self-loathing intertwine in parenting. @literaryhub.bsky.social
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Sasha Bonét on Black Motherhood, Fragmented Storytelling, and Untangling History
I met my former MFA classmate Sasha Bonét on Admitted Student Night in the spring of 2014. I recognized her as a force of nature on sight. It couldn’t be more fitting that her new book finds her tr…
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 24/09/2025
Sasha Bonét, whose new memoir, “The Waterbearers,” traces the lives of her mother and grandmother, discusses four other books that examine complex mothers.
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The Mother as Antihero
Sasha Bonét, the author of “The Waterbearers,” shares four books about mothers who are both incredible and imperfect.
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