Summary
"A memoir about the author's coming of age as she grapples with her identity as an artist, her family's racial history, and her mother's death from cancer"-- Full description
- Prologue: The Miracle
- I. My Book House
- Wild Kingdom
- Spirits and Demons
- Kin
- Leroy
- A Home in the World
- II. MGM
- Little Feats of Daring
- Total Adventure
- Book a Big Band
- A Necessary Rite
- Humor
- III. Uninvisible
- The Night Stalker
- Hot & Fast
- Shame
- Mother
- Epistolary
- Positive
- IV. Kathleen
- Something Better
- The Woman at the Well
- A Strange Thing to Do
- I, Too
- Testimony
- V. Another Dialect of the Soul
- Something Powerful at Her Side
- A Strange After
- Abide
- Clearances
- Epilogue: Dear God.