We Are Bridges: A Memoir
We Are Bridges: A Memoir
Lane, Cassandra
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Condition: New, UPC: 9781952177927, Publication Date: Thu, April 1, 2021, Type: Paperback ,
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2A lyrical memoir reconstructing the lost history of a Black American family.

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 Magdalene 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.

"An exceptional memoir of self-discovery through family histories." --Foreword Reviews (starred review)

"We Are Bridges makes a stunning contribution to what must become our collective memory." --NPR

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