"ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle.
It keeps unfolding page after page."--Off Our Backs.
Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. . .
It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her .
From the author\'s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde\'s work is cyclical. "ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle