We Are Bridges : A Memoir LOWER GRADE auditioning for a performance

auditioning for a performance

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

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

Their stories are told on street corners and in back alleys

We Are Bridges : A Memoir LOWER GRADE auditioning for a performanceThis 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