Asè Book Boutique

The Official Bookstore of The Black Girl Brand

Blind Date With a Book Meetings Silent Reading Party

Chicago, let’s get cute and cozy. I’m hosting a Bookish Sip & Swap on Dec 21. Bring a wrapped book, grab a warm drink, enjoy a silent reading party, then mingle with me at the end. Tickets are limited, so grab yours.

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Guided Writing Workshop

Manifesting Through the Pen is back, returning as a gentle year-end ritual for anyone wanting to slow down, breathe, and write their way into clarity. This 90-minute virtual session blends grounding prompts, quiet journaling, and intention-setting to help you release what no longer serves you and step into 2025 with purpose.

Whether you’re closing a chapter, calling something new in, or simply needing space to reflect, this workshop offers a soft landing at the end of the year. To keep the experience accessible, the session is offered through tiered, pay-what-you-can pricing, including options with or without a copy of Black Liturgies, a beautiful companion for reflection beyond our time together.

Bring a notebook, a pen, and a little openness. Come as you are and leave with language for what you’re stepping toward.

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Join our book club

It’s here! Welcome to Pages with My Homegirls Book Club. This is a space made just for us to read, laugh, heal, and build community together. Inspired by the idea of homeplace, that sacred space where we feel belonging, safety, and joy, this book club is all about creating a home where stories of Black girls and women take center stage, and where YOU can pour back into yourself while building real community. This book club is open to everyone who wants to celebrate and uplift these stories. We'll engage through virtual meetups for our worldwide fam and in-person in Chicago for that face-to-face magic. If you’ve been craving sisterhood, joy, deep conversation, and books that leave you transformed, this is YOUR sign. Pull up, grab your books, and let’s grow together. Welcome home, sis.

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We Don't Talk about Carol

We Don't Talk about Carol

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In the wake of her grandmother's passing, Sydney Singleton finds a hidden photograph of a little girl who looks more like Sydney than her own sister or mother. She soon discovers the mystery girl in the photograph is her aunt, Carol, who was one of six North Carolina Black girls to go missing in the 1960s. For the last several decades, not a soul has talked about Carol or what really happened to her. But now, with her grandmother gone and Sydney looking to start a family of her own, she is determined to unravel the truth behind her long-lost aunt's disappearance, and the sinister silence that surrounds her.

 

Unfortunately, this is familiar territory for Sydney: Years earlier, while she worked the crime beat as a journalist, her obsession with the case of another missing girl led to a psychotic break. And now, in the suffocating grip of fertility treatments and a marriage that's beginning to crumble, Sydney's relentless pursuit for answers might just lead her down the same path of self-destruction. As she delves deeper into Carol's fate, her own troubled past reemerges, clawing its way to the surface with a vengeance. The web of secrets and lies entangling her family leaves Sydney questioning everything--her fixation on the missing girls, her future as a mom, and her trust in those she knows and loves.

 

Delving into family, community, secrets, and motherhood, We Don't Talk About Carol is a gripping and deeply emotional story about overcoming the rot at the roots of our family trees--and what we'll do for those we love.

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What's Asè?

Asè [Ah-shay] is a Yoruba word that means “it is done.” This word is typically said after meditating. Personally, it connotes resistance. The energy that surrounds this word after I meditate is the energy I want this store to offer.

Think of this space as a sanctuary for those learning, growing, and evolving through literature created by Black, Indigenous, People of Color.

All BIPOC Stories.

All Truths.

All Love.

-Jen