Sweet Serenity by Mrs. Lily S. Flowers

Mrs. Lily S. Flowers released Sweet Serenity some weeks back.

Happy, belated, Release Day Mrs. Flowers

Mrs. Flowers hit me straight in the feels when I read the epigraph

“To understand the full scope of the African American experience in medicine, we must confront both the pain and the resilience.”— Harriet A. Washington, Medical Apartheid

Sweet Serenity by Mrs. Lily S. Flowers

and demolished them with her dedication.

This is a love letter to Black women. To your joy, your grief, your becoming. You are held. You are honored. You are everything.

Sweet Serenity by Mrs. Lily S. Flowers

This read is about healing foremost, through Wade, (MMC, 40, author) and Serenity‘s (FMC, 28, medical student) story.

‼️Mrs. Flowers gives us a detailed content warning, mental health, age gap, public humiliation and viral shame, medical racism and micro-aggressions within healthcare systems, grief and loss of a close friend, trauma-informed kink and therapy, brief mention of suicide and ideation, references to vasovagal syncope BDSM power dynamics, explicit sexual content, academic and professional pressure in medical training settings

I’m reading…

Mrs. Flowers’ book can be found through the following link:

Sweet Serenity by Mrs. Lily S. Flowers