Description: A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century.
Brief description: Saidiya Hartman is the author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Lose Your Mother, Scenes of Subjection. She has been a MacArthur Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, Cullman Fellow, and Fulbright Scholar. She is a University Professor at Columbia University and lives in New York.
Review Quotes: Ambitious, original...a beautiful experiment in its own right.--Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts