The death of a jaybird : essays on mothers and daughters and the things they leave behind
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
305.48896/SAVAGE,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : HarperPerennial, [2023]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
227 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780063276086, 0063276089 :, 0063276089, 9780063276086
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
What If : On Black Lives and Mental Health -- Searching for Salvation at Antioch -- How to Attend a Black Funeral -- Running Out of Time -- The Death of a Jaybird -- A Laying on of Hands -- I'm Too Pretty to Die Tonight -- The Ties That Bind -- I'm Not a Slut in the Street -- The Things She Left Behind -- Some Useful Advice for Going to Meet Your Dead Loved One and Other Tragedies
"Reminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebody's Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often humorous collection of essays that explore the author's ever-changing relationships with her grandmother and mother, through sickness and health, as they experience the joys and challenges of Black American womanhood"--