![]() ![]() Not only are the women palpably painted with verbiage, but the setting of Memphis is teeming with a kinetic aura. ![]() The beauty of the bond these women have shines through, united in their shared commitment. Throughout each chapter, as the timeline and perspective shifts back and forth, their lives are colored in by Stringfellow’s visceral prose, culminating in a supple sweet tribute to southern Black womanhood. Hazel is a grieving widow, seamstress, and nurse. August is a single mother running her own business. Miriam is course-correcting a troubled marriage, her two daughters and dog in tow. Young Joan is an artist with the burden of trauma. ![]() Sweeping across decades from chapter to chapter, we grow to understand what each of these women have endured and how they have persevered, carving out their joy in a complicated world which is so greedy to take. But all this comes with time.įlipping among perspectives between Joan, her mother Miriam, Miriam’s sister August, and matriarch Hazel, Memphis recounts three generations of a southern Black family. ![]() Hell wherein a child’s nightmare transpired haven wherein solace was gifted. Meeting place for civil rights activists. “The house looked living.” This mystical house, built by Joan’s grandfather and home to generations. Aptly, this novel opens with the Norths’ family house. ![]()
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