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Humbled Cadillacs: A Book Review – “Kin” by Tayari Jones
***Spoiler Alert: if you have not yet read Kin, please kindly come back to this review after finishing! Thank ya!*** Rock-A-Bye Baby What the heck happened? It is both a simple and a complex question to ask. The inquiry implies something expected, tangible even…and being met with the opposite. It is this question that stoodContinue reading “Humbled Cadillacs: A Book Review – “Kin” by Tayari Jones”
We Begin With Grace: A Mother’s Day Book Review – Denene Millner’s “One Blood”
Our grandmothers proclaimed that giving birth was closest a woman got to dying without actually…dying. Denene Millner’s ‘One Blood’ reinforces this notion. From preteen to post heart-attack there’s much resurrection in her words. It is a book that hit close to home as I am a Maternity Nurse by trade. Scent. Scent of earth andContinue reading “We Begin With Grace: A Mother’s Day Book Review – Denene Millner’s “One Blood””