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Training School for Negro Girls

Camille Acker

This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who’s never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life’s “training school”―with lessons on gentrification and respectability—and fight to create their own sense of space and self. Author - Camille Acker. Narrator - Bahni Turpin. Published Date - Wednesday, 21 January 2026. Copyright - © 2018 Camille Acker ©.

Location:

United States

Description:

This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who’s never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life’s “training school”―with lessons on gentrification and respectability—and fight to create their own sense of space and self. Author - Camille Acker. Narrator - Bahni Turpin. Published Date - Wednesday, 21 January 2026. Copyright - © 2018 Camille Acker ©.

Language:

English


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