Description: Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Colorado Book Award
Brief description: Camille T. Dungy is an award-winning poet and editor and professor of creative writing at Colorado State University. She lives with her husband and child in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Review Quotes: Part memoir, part travelogue, part parental guide, this book is a stunningly beautiful love letter from a mother to her daughter to help her daughter embrace the world she lives in, to introduce her to her ancestors, and prepare her for the future.--Edwidge Danticat, author of The Art of Death