NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS 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.
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS 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