"Mam. I heard it again from another room, as I always did when the adults were careful not to mention her name around me, as if it was both a sacred thing and cause for punishment, and I ran toward it." #TheDragonsTheGiantTheWomen #WayetuMoore #FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
I'm so excited that my library is open again and offering curbside! I plan to read this and then her memoir, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women.
#SheWouldbeKing #WayetuMoore
“I lived at Emerson before. And that year, you would come outside to find the wind so deep in her feelings that she knocked over buckets full of water from the wash tables and stole clothes from the hanging lines before they hardened.” -pg.41 #wayetumoore
