In Black Chameleon, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton tells her own story while remixing myths and drawing on traditions form all over the world: mothers literally grow eyes in the backs of their heads, children dust childhood from their bodies, and women come to love the wildness of the hair they once tried to tame. With a poet's gift for lyricism and poignancy, Mouton reflects on her childhood and her experiences as a Black woman whose love is all too often coupled with danger. Of the moment yet timeless, playful but incendiary, Black Chameleon stakes out new territory in the memoir form.