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"Raising Women is a book that knows you. It knows all your secrets."
— REBECCA JONES-HOW, author of Vile Men and Ending in Ashes

"Less a journey and more a plummet through a mad funhouse of personal discovery, risky behaviors, and strange bedfellows."
— JASON M. FYLAN, author of "Engines, O-Rings, and Astronauts" in Burnt Tongues

"Raising Women offers insight on how to acknowledge the human being and their experience, shattering any judgements of what a “real” woman should be, look and think like."
—LIANNA ALBRIZIO, Reedsy Discovery

"As I’m reading the book, I’m legit like omg I knew this girl (Roman) growing up."
                                     — MELISSA, a reader

"The whole story has followed You creating an identity as a woman amidst an infinity of mixed signals and potential dangers, and these lines really take that to a deeper level by pointing at the fact that this is not exclusive to You."
— XAVIER, a reader

"I really enjoyed this style of pathway storytelling. Roman... was intriguing and infuriating at the same time. The voice is extremely strong. Waite literally pulls us in and doesn't let us go until the very end!"
— B. BENFORD, a reader

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Shannon Waite writes stories about norms, characters who break norms, and society's wounds. They're always contemporary, often transgressive.

She's an award-winning, published writer who teaches English and Creative Writing in Detroit.

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