We Are Bridges : A Memoir LOWER GRADE More than fifteen years after

More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale

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

He slept outside and learned to say good-bye to his amiguitos each time his family moved to a new town

We Are Bridges : A Memoir LOWER GRADE More than fifteen years afterThis 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