Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair

Ella McLeod

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Yellow Jacket
11 June 2024

Selected for the ALA 2025 Rise: A Feminist Book Project list! Rapunzella is a genre-bending novel that weaves together a young girl's ordinary life and a wildly dangerous fairytale universe, celebrating Black hair and the power of coming into your identity.

""Recasting classic fairy tales in the context of Blackness, the marvelous novel Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair celebrates Black women's solidarity and the magic that's innate in Black girls. . . . A love letter to Black women."" Foreword, STARRED REVIEW

Zella is imprisoned in an enchanted forest made of her own Afro, and the might of the evil King Charming seems unstoppable. But is it? Can she use her power to change the future?

You're fifteen. You spend your time at school and at Val's hair salon with Baker, Val's son, who has eyes that are like falling off a cliff into space. The salon is a space of safety, but also of possibility and dreams. When you dream, you visit an enchanted forest full of friends and wonder. You dream of witches and magic, of hair so rich and alive that it grow upwards and outwards into a wild landscape, becomes trees and leaves, and houses birds and butterflies and all the secret creatures that belong in such a forest. But when you wake, your memories vanish, and you are just you, trying to navigate relationships and learning who you will grow up to be.

Is there a future where your dreams are more than just dreams?

Ella McLeod's debut merges poetry, prose, and second person point of view in a stunningly lyrical, heart-piercingly honest exploration of a teenager coming into her power as a young woman.

By: Ella McLeod
Imprint: Yellow Jacket
Dimensions: Height: 221mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9781499816112
ISBN 10: 1499816111
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 11 June 2024
Recommended Age: From 13 to 17 years
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ella McLeod is a writer, poet, and podcaster, who lives in South London with her fiancé and cat. She also co-hosts Comfort Creatures on the Maximum Fun Network. Ella loves Shakespeare, the Harlem Renaissance, mythology, and ramen, and firmly believes in the radical power of dreaming.

Reviews for Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair

"McLeod compassionately interrogates the relationship between Black women, their hair, and respectability politics, making for a fine tribute to chosen families, and to Black women in all their rich complexity.-- ""Publishers Weekly"" This poetic mash-up of fairy tales and the real world is the perfect response to a society that undervalues Blackness.-- ""Booklist"" Ambitious and original, this genre-bending YA debut braids fairytale, poetry and coming-of-age story into something elegant and unique.-- ""The Guardian UK"" This is a lyrical exploration of a teenager coming into her power as a young woman and a unique celebration of the power of Black identity and Black hair.-- ""Bookseller UK"" Told in verse and second-person prose, this story skillfully balances the whimsy of an enchanting fantasy world with a candid portrait of growing up and an incisive exploration of Black identity. . . . This imaginative, lyrical coming-of-age story celebrates Black Girl Magic.-- ""Kirkus"" There are lines to love on every single page of this impressive debut.--Claire Hennessy ""Irish TImes"" Recasting classic fairy tales in the context of Blackness, the marvelous novel Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair celebrates Black women's solidarity and the magic that's innate in Black girls. . . . A love letter to Black women.-- ""Foreword, STARRED REVIEW"" Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair is a dazzling debut that marks a fantastic entrance into the world of fiction for McLeod.--Kaitlin Jefferys ""Voice Magazine"""