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| Author | Ketanji Brown Jackson |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | September 3, 2024 |
| Pages | 405 |
| ISBN | 978-0-593-72990-8 |
| OCLC | 1452735147 |
Lovely One is the 2024 memoir by U.S. Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The title stems from the justice's first and middle names, Ketanji Onyika, a suggestion from her aunt who was a Peace Corps volunteer in west Africa around the time Brown Jackson was born. [1]
Lovely One reached the top of the New York Times Bestseller List the week of September 22, 2024, [2] despite receiving criticism for not being as sharp of writing as some of her judicial writing. [3]
The book describes Brown Jackson's own stories, mentors, notably Justice Stephen Breyer, and role-models, [4] including Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to argue a case before the US Supreme Court. It also tells the stories facing the greater Black population, such as a relative inability to swim due to their parents' lack of access to public pools and beaches or the inegalites of stop-and-search practices. [5] [6]
