Generations, Paperback by Clifton, Lucille; Smith, Tracy K. (INT), Used Good ...
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Generations, Paperback by Clifton, Lucille; Smith, Tracy K. (INT), Used Good .... A father's funeral. Generations, Paperback by Clifton, Lucille; Smith, Tracy K. (INT), ISBN 1681375877, ISBN-13 9781681375878, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US "Buffalo. A father's funeral. Memory. In Generations, Louise Clifton's formidable poetic gift emerges in prose, giving us a memoir of stark and profound beauty. Her story focuses on the lives of the Sayles family: Caroline, "born among the Dahomey peoplein 1822," who walked north from New Orleans to Virginia in 1830 when she was eight years old; Lucy, the first black woman to be hanged in Virginia; and Gene, born with a withered arm, the son of a carpetbagger and the author's grandmother. Lucille Clifton tells us about the life of an African-American family through slavery and hard times and beyond, of the death of her father and grandmother, but also of all the life and love and triumph that came before and remains even now. Generations is a powerful work of determination and affirmation. "I look at my husband," Clifton writes, "and my children and I feel the Dahomey women gathering in my bones.""--
