Honey Is the Knife

Whether describing an existential body image crisis in a Bikram yoga studio, embracing anxiety during a Black Madonna pilgrimage, or reclaiming Yoruba mythology and the Divine Feminine, debut author Hannah Eko bravely connects a singular life to the universal truths of peace, power, and pleasure in her first collection. Equally a work of provocative cultural criticism, a disruptor of the self-help genre, and a journey of self-discovery, Honey Is the Knife is an initiation into a life...
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Whether describing an existential body image crisis in a Bikram yoga studio, embracing anxiety during a Black Madonna pilgrimage, or reclaiming Yoruba mythology and the Divine Feminine, debut author Hannah Eko bravely connects a singular life to the universal truths of peace, power, and pleasure in her first collection. Equally a work of provocative cultural criticism, a disruptor of the self-help genre, and a journey of self-discovery, Honey Is the Knife is an initiation into a life of happy contradiction, in which we thank our failures, dance with our pain, and where honey is the only knife we need.