In Black Chameleon, Mouton brings forth a novel and interesting addition to the memoir genre; she weaves together creative nonfiction and magical realism to seamlessly switch between describing events in her own life and imagined additions to them and then to original fables/myths that she has created pertaining to the specifically Black American experience (as opposed to the experience of a non-American Black person). I found her prose lyrical, beautiful, heartbreaking, hard to read at times, and overall well worth reading. Would recommend.

Thank you to NetGalley to providing me an ARC.