![]() “It’s memoir, yes, but it’s also a journey into the speculative, tunneling back into a series of what ifs and if onlys. ![]() ![]() “As Lane trains her investigative arsenal on her own past, the work achieves the kind of translucence familiar only to great memoirists, as the unbearable brilliance of the author's intellect shines through the tissue of her memories like sunlight through leaves.” -Rain Taxi Review of Books “Through the pain contained in the pages of We Are Bridges, there is always this movement toward hope, as pregnancy connects her ancestors to her offspring.” -Mom Egg Review Haunting and poetic, this debut traces the strange fruit borne from the roots of personal loss in one Black family-and considers how to take back one’s American story. We Are Bridges turns to creative nonfiction to reclaim a family history from violent erasure so that a mother can gift her child with an ancestral blueprint for their future. ![]() She moves between the twentieth-century rural South and present-day Los Angeles, reimagining the intimate life of her great-grandparents Mary Magdalene Magee and Burt Bridges, and Burt's lynching at the hands of vengeful white men in his southern town. When Cassandra Lane finds herself pregnant at thirty-five, the knowledge sends her on a poignant exploration of memory to prepare for her entry into motherhood. ![]()
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