GENERATIONS Gentlewomen explores personal and historical

Gentlewomen explores personal and historical trauma

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GENERATIONS Gentlewomen explores personal and historicalFrom the press: A moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa. Buffalo, New York. A fathers funeral. Memory. In Generations, Lucille Cliftons 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 people