19/04/2023
Loved working on the cover design for this beautiful memoir 🚦❤️🧡💚
COVER REVEAL!
A note from the author: "The cover for my first book, coming out October 3! Thank you so much to Mumtaz Mustafa for giving my memoir a face!
When we were driving and I’d ask my mom where we were going, she’d often say, “To hell if we don’t change our ways!” It was a regular joke for people in my Pentecostal family and she delivered it with goofy bravado, but I realized as I got older that she was often saying it to distract from the fact that she didn't know where we were going. With no money, her abusive boyfriend hunting for us, and dwindling places to run to, she gave me this little platitude that I could chew on as I gazed out the car window. I often thought about hell and what I needed to change about myself to avoid going there. When I reflect now, I see that hell was being caught in a cycle of violence, watching as the hurt moved through generations, through my mother, through her father, through his father, through the men who came into my life and wanted to be my father, through me, through my brother.
I'm hoping people will find language and recognition in my book. I'm hoping readers will come away feeling complicated about the characters. I'm hoping I make enough from royalties to buy a hot pickle. I'm hoping you will all let the joy and discomfort sit in your body at the same time.
The pre-order link is in my bio! Please. I really want that hot pickle."
— Brittany Means, author of HELL IF WE DON'T CHANGE OUR WAYS
Available in bookstores everywhere on October 3rd!