Black ButterFly

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Knott offers an inspiring meditation on how we repair ourselves in the face of tragedy, trauma and injustice; on what it is to be a woman – and become a matriarch. It is not what I thought the “South” looked like, but it clearly has shaped the city’s deep rooted segregation.

it was relatively easy to read, but included a lot of information/concepts that at times could be difficult to fully remember/contextualize. Such is the nature of bigotry in the 21st century, it manifests itself under the guise of “plausible deniability. Zora must cope with much—the struggle for survival, the pain of watching the city she loves being torn to pieces around her, her art that she lives for and through which she expresses herself destroyed, separation from her family (whom she needs more than ever at these times), grappling with the question of leaving versus staying, and really also wondering about the war itself which makes no sense. The ‘black butterflies’ are a brilliant example of this, an image which is poetic, tragic and literal all at once.Set in 1992, Zora Kočović is an art professor who lives in Sarajevo with her husband, Franjo (a former journalist), and her 83 years old mother. He also does a good job of providing specific solutions to these problems, with cost estimates and policies that would actually help these communities in a structural way, rather than throwing some money at the problem and having it all go to development companies anyway. I remember seeing his poems all over Instagram a few years back and loving each and every one that he posted.

I held it all together until I came to a letter dated July 18, 1992, and the dam broke and I sobbed.But please note, if you are in an anxious or depressed state of mind, I suggest you stay away from this book until you are in a happier mental place.

I don't know that any of them will come to fruition and some of them seem very much pie in the sky, but I did like that he is at least trying to offer ways to move the city forward.

We see Zora, the artist, as she continues to paint and to teach art, until her workplace is destroyed and her art takes on a different form. Drake is an American author known for his bestselling books BEAUTIFUL CHAOS and BLACK BUTTERFLY, among others.

Louis and Cleveland, as well as Baltimore's adoption of increasingly oppressive techniques from cities such as Chicago. i'm rambling but i recommend this overall if it's something that sounds interesting to you (maybe not so much if not)! Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city into ethnic enclaves; each morning, the residents – whether Muslim, Croat or Serb – push the makeshift barriers aside.In its story of a diverse, peaceful community transformed by nationalism into a place of fear, death and destruction, it’s impossible to read Black Butterflies without thinking of the current war in Ukraine and, in particular, the siege of Mariupol. This was a wonderful though heart-breaking book which kept me reading all through, and one which I highly recommend. While many are unrealistic, a few may stick, if only in augmented form, to counter racial inequity in Baltimore. Zora joins with her friends to survive the days, offer comfort to each other, and find reasons to hope. The book also gives specific steps that nonprofits and the city can take to begin to repair the harm caused by racist policies, racist history, and anti-Blackness that was created and upheld to benefit non-Black residents.