Description: Through a shifting narrative of text and photographs, Christman explores the intersection of image and memory and considers the ways we rework our original memories. Brutally honest and surprisingly funny, she deftly blends narrative, letters, and her father's photography to create a family saga that is both heartbreaking and exhilarating.
Brief description: LYNDA J. MORGAN is Professor of History and Africana Studies at Mount Holyoke College. She is author of Emancipation in Virginia's Tobacco Belt (1992) and Known for My Work: African American Ethics from Slavery to Freedom (2016). Her other publications include an article in the Journal of African-American History and entries for the Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America (1988) and the Dictionary of Virginia Biography (1990).
Review Quotes:
It's a beautiful story, beautifully told. . . . Against all odds there is humor here, too, and in the end, the affirmation of a worthy life, won by a survivor.
--Muncie Star Press