Limit this search to....

We Are Bridges: A Memoir
Contributor(s): Lane, Cassandra (Author)
ISBN: 1952177928     ISBN-13: 9781952177927
Publisher: Feminist Press
OUR PRICE:   $16.16  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2021
Qty:
Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2020051097
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 7.9" (0.70 lbs) 232 pages
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

In this evocative memoir, Cassandra Lane deftly uses the act of imagination to reclaim her ancestors' story as a backdrop for telling her own. The tradition of Black women's storytelling leaps forward within these pages--into fresh, daring, and excitingly new territory. --Bridgett M. Davis, author of The World According to Fannie Davis

When Cassandra Lane finds herself pregnant at thirty-five, the knowledge sends her on a poignant exploration of memory to prepare for her entry into motherhood. She moves between the twentieth-century rural South and present-day Los Angeles, reimagining the intimate life of her great-grandparents Mary Magdelene Magee and Burt Bridges, and Burt's lynching at the hands of vengeful white men in his southern town.

We Are Bridges turns to creative nonfiction to reclaim a family history from violent erasure so that a mother can gift her child with an ancestral blueprint for their future. Haunting and poetic, this debut traces the strange fruit borne from the roots of personal loss in one Black family--and considers how to take back one's American story.