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Radiah : Tell us about Black Girls Must Die Exhausted. Jayne: Black Girls Must Die Exhausted is the story of 33-year-old Tabitha Walker.   She’s a woman who has really focused on societal expectations and living according to “standards.”   What’s more, as a black woman, she faces additional pressures because those standards weren’t necessarily created with her in mind.     The story kicks off meeting Tabitha (who we call Tabby, as we get to know her) on her worst day, just after she’s become aware of a fertility crisis that throws her carefully laid plans into disarray. Everything she’s taken for granted now needs to be reconsidered.   And along that process, Tabby must learn a new way to look at fulfillment, apart from just meeting standards and for her own happiness, learn how to shift from just surviving to starting to think what thriving would be like for her.   Jayne: What I hoped to do with this book was authentically center a black female protagonist...