GUIDEBOOK TO RELATIVE STRANGERS

As a working mother and poet-lecturer, Camille Dungys livelihood depended on travel. She crisscrossed America and beyond with her d aughter in tow, history shadowing their steps, always intensely aware of how they were perceived, not just as mother and child but a s black women. From the San Francisco of settlers dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana, from snow-white Maine to a festive ye t threatening bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods, Dungy finds fear and trauma but also mercy, kindness, and community. Penetrating an d generous...[Read more]