The waterbearers : a memoir of mothers and daughters

"A sharp, tender, sweeping history of three single Black mothers -- the author's grandmother, mother, and the author herself -- interwoven with the stories of the Black women they saw on the screen and heard on the radio every day. Here is a masterpiece of life writing by a thrilling new voice, a writer who will remake how we think of generations. We begin in a house along a bayou in Texas, a home bought and paid for -- and run -- by the author's...