Black Is the Body - Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
Author(s): Emily Bernard
WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PROSE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
ONE OF MAUREEN CORRIGAN'S 10 UNPUTDOWNABLE READS OF THE YEAR
In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee shop, marrying a white man from the North and bringing him home to her family, adopting two children from Ethiopia, and living and teaching in a primarily white New England college town. Each of these essays sets out to discover a new way of talking about race and of telling the truth as the author has lived it. "Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book."
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Random House Publishing Group
- : Vintage
- : 0.242
- : 01 December 2019
- : 2.1 Centimeters X 13.1 Centimeters X 20.1 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Emily Bernard
- : Paperback
- : 1912
- : 240