My Mother's Daughter : A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph Black & African American Historical Fiction the book is an intensely

the book is an intensely personal and provocative document from the iconic author of If Beale Street Could Talk and Go Tell It on the Mountain

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My Mother's Daughter : A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph Black & African American Historical Fiction the book is an intenselyA raw and affecting memoir about a mother and daughter who beat the odds together. Decades before Perdita Felicien became a World Champion hurdler running the biggest race of her life at the 2004 Olympics, she carried more than a nations hopesshe carried her mother Catherines dreams. In 1974, teenage Catherine is determined and tenacious, but shes also pregnant with her second child and just scraping by in St. Lucia. When she meets a wealthy white