YA Author Ashley Woodfolk Stokes The Flames Within Female Friendships In ‘Nothing Burns As Bright As You’
essence.comThe Beauty That Remains, When You Were Everything, and others, decided to explore those feelings between two female best friends.
In her newest novel-in-verse, Nothing Burns as Bright as You, queer love, friendship, and grief burn each page like a fire that can’t be extinguished.Told in a day but using years of each friend’s history, Nothing Burns as Bright as You follows two best friends after they start a fire—and how their relationship shifts.
What started out as a friendship grew into something more, and their blurry lines only get blurrier as they navigate their changing feelings.Woodfolk explores learning your worth, knowing when to leave love, and choosing a healthy love that also sets your soul on fire—or choosing yourself.
Essence spoke to Woodfolk about complicated female friendships, recklessness, and fear as a hindrance.ESSENCE: What inspired you to write Nothing Burns As Bright As You?Ashley Woodfolk: This book came shortly after the pandemic started.
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