Preface: Great Expectations / Maya Angelou ix -- Foreword: Reflections on Family / Pearl Cleage xiii -- Introduction: Making Up the Truth / Rosemarie Robotham xvii -- First Light -- Rachel / Tina
... McElroy Ansa 3 -- Circling Hand / Jamaica Kincaid 20 -- Driving Lesson / Gerald Early 35 -- Holy Cross Hospital / Toi Derricotte 42 -- Bright Thursdays / Olive Senior 46 -- Myth of Music / Rachel M. Harper 64 -- Myth-Making -- Ocean / Shay Youngblood 69 -- Book of the Dead / Edwidge Danticat 85 -- Show Business / Martha Southgate 98 -- A Son in Shadow / Fred D'Aguiar 111 -- On Earth / Jacqueline Woodson 128 -- Three Sonnets for Mister Kent / Kendel Hippolyte 137 -- Shifting Self -- Drill / Breena Clarke 141 -- Dear Aunt Nanadine / Alexis De Veaux 147 -- Who Shot Johnny? / Debra Dickerson 156 -- Going Home / Janus Adams 161 -- My Daughter, Once Removed / William Jelani Cobb 165 -- Feather / April Reynolds 169 -- A Taste of Eden -- Sleeper's Wake / Paule Marshall 187 -- Aunt Delia / Valerie Wilson Wesley 197 -- Uncle Raymond / Nelson Eubanks 199 -- Brothers and Sisters Around the World / Andrea Lee 215 -- China / Charles Johnson 224 -- Will & Testament / Malaika Adero 246 -- Mending the World -- Momma / Paulette Childress White 251 -- Daddy / James McBride 252 -- Counting Breaths / Rosemarie Robotham 260 -- Two of Us / Alice Walker 263 -- Good Daughter / Rebecca Walker 267 -- Box / Diane McKinney-Whetstone 272. Read More