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.
Lovely One reached the top of the New York Times Bestseller List the week of September 22, 2024, despite receiving criticism for not being as sharp of writing as some of her judicial writing.
In addition to Brown Jackson's own stories and mentors, the book 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.
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- Official website
