“The words that hurt the most aren’t necessarily the ones that are true. The words that hurt the most are the words that you’ve been afraid are true about you. The same ones you whisper to yourself in moments of self-doubt and deepest shame.”

This is the third and final book in the Black Girls Must Die Exhausted trilogy about Tabby, who’s become a new mother and trying to juggle work and other relationships. Throughout the story, she begins to accept her new life while facing the challenge of choosing herself.