Excerpt

Wash Day Diaries

Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith

September 19, 2022 
The following is from writer Jamila Rowser and artist Robyn Smith graphic novel Wash Day Diaries, a love letter to the beauty and endurance of Black women, their friendships, and their hair.

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From Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith. Excerpted with permission from Chronicle Books.






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