CSPAN2 Author Discussion On Memoirs July 13, 2024
Professor of english at university of vermont. Her latest book stories from my grandmothers time, my mothers time and mine is an extraordinary exquisitely written memoir to look at race and a fearless and penetrating and honest way. These essays that explore up close the complexities and the haunting memories of growing up black in the south with the family name inherited from a white man, getting impeached for mail and marrying a white man from the north, adopting two babies from in the loan ethiopia Henry Louis Gates calls it a major contribution in the Washington Post says it is magnificent...