Being a millennial girl I loved Milk & Honey, Rupi Kaur’s first book. I had no idea how badly I needed that book until I read it. It took the things I held inside me and gave them a place to live. It is one of those books that I really wish I had written. Her words hit me so hard and ultimately healed me in places I didn’t even know were broken. Her relatability sprouts over into her most recent book “The Sun and Her Flowers” where she dives even deeper into what it’s like to be a woman. Through heartbreak, sexual assault, and figuring out how to chose yourself first. Some of it I actually couldn’t bare to read and had to skip passed, major trigger warnings. But I was happy someone was putting terrible experiences into beautiful raw poetry. She not only portrays the feelings of a young woman in love, heart break and healing, her illustrations compliment her words flawlessly. It may be the most cliche millennial girl thing to love these books so much, but damn Rupi is good. Not just as a writer but as a person; she follows no one on Instagram, that’s right 0 because she doesn’t think it is a good space to be when you’re a creative, I’m working on unfollowing people slowly.
Anyways read both of her books and let me know what you think! Here are some of my favorite excerpts from “The Sun and Her Flowers”:
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