Summary
"This extraordinary memoir of struggle and perseverance offers new ways of envisioning economic equality for everyone-from a leading activist and fashion pioneer. Aurora James's story is not a "success story." Or at least, it shouldn't be told that way. Having dropped out of high school, struggled w... Full description
- Prologue
- My mother's daughter
- Castles made of sand
- Food to cry
- Bruised fruit
- Lions and hunters
- Passing
- Call me if you get lost
- Adrift
- Planting seeds...
- Seeking sunlight
- Wanderlust
- From Africa with love
- Garden of good and evil
- Winning isn't everything
- Target on my back
- Close to the sun
- Homesick for another world
- My ask
- Seeds become trees
- A seat at the table
- Joyful rebellion
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments.