Book Review: Beautiful Rage: The Break of Dawn’ by Janaya Black

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt. –James Baldwin

Oh! She looks so…delightfully bored, Janaya Black, I thought to myself as I stood in front of the odd collection of writers and folk-alike, a linear view beyond Versandra Kennebrew, through Dominee and Lenderrick and Sylvia and Yusef Shakur, three rows away from my center-front presentation at a recent Live Ladies of Literature Book Event at Biggby Coffee (located on Woodward Avenue near Wayne State University). It was here that the smartly dressed filmmaker stood next to me near the latte counter, over by (Trinity Film Coalition partner) Marshalle Montgomery and made pleasant small talk before handing me a review copy of her latest novel, Beautiful Rage: The Break of Dawn. ..(cont)