We Are Bridges : A Memoir LOWER GRADE remind us that blackness and

remind us that blackness and brownness tell an ongoing story

It's also about the surreal magic of adolescence

goaded by the activism of Frederick Douglass and many others

it is a difficult subject to talk about

auditioning for a performance

We Are Bridges : A Memoir LOWER GRADE remind us that blackness andThis lyrical memoir of late motherhood reconstructs the lost history of a Black American family, defying erasure, intergenerational trauma, and racist violence. "In this evocative memoir, Cassandra Lane deftly uses the act of imagination to reclaim her ancestors story as a backdrop for telling her own. The tradition of Black womens storytelling leaps forward within these pagesinto fresh, daring, and excitingly new territory." Bridgett M. Davis, author