Last year, we featured Akwaeke Emezi’s debut novel Freshwater in JARO’s curated list of books to read by women of color in 2018. After becoming a finalist for the prestigious PEN/Hemingway Award for a Debut Novel and receiving various other accolades, Freshwater is now in early development for television by
Tuca & Bertie is a Netflix animated series voiced by comedians Ali Wong and Tiffany Haddish and produced by cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt (BoJack Horseman). The series follows the titular birds’ friendship and their radically different approaches to navigating life as women. Bertie (Wong) is a mild-mannered young professional who struggles
