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  1. A GLORIOUS MULTI-GENRE COLLECTION of memoir, essays, and poetry exploring the lives of Black women as a group, as individuals, and in families. The clarity of Jeffers’s insights and the power of her words will leave you breathless. A MINUS

    barnesandnoble.com/w/misbehavi

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  2. Another great panel at the GAPS #conference heard Cherise Fung talk about silence & agency of Asian women in care, Tola Ositelu on meritocracy in 3 #memoirs by Black British women, and Dorit Neumann on Danaé Wellington's poem "The blue jeans asks her"

    #BlackPoetry #PostcolonialStudies #LifeWriting #BlackStudies

  3. Terry Tempest Williams offers an intimate portrait of national parks in her memoir The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks. She guides readers on a reverential tour of parks, revealing the meanings these places have etched in her memory and experience. Family, beauty, creativity, a care for land all rank highly in the values she finds in national parks.

    #BooksWorthReading #memoirs #NationalParks #TerryTempestWilliams #Mormons #Mormonism

  4. AN EXPERT ON CARCERAL VIOLENCE and the system’s cruel injustices to poor and minority youth tells the story of a tragedy that happened in his own extended family—the loss of a bright, caring teen to imprisonment and then a gang-related murder. A MINUS

    barnesandnoble.com/w/sito-laur

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