The death of a jaybird : essays on mothers and daughters and the things they leave behind / Jodi M. Savage.

Title:

ISBN:

9780063276086

Personal Author:

Savage, Jodi M., 1978-

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York, NY : HarperPerennial, [2023]

Physical Description:

227 pages ; $c 21 cm

Contents:

What If : On Black Lives and Mental Health -- Searching for Salvation at Antioch -- How to Attend a Black Funeral -- Running Out of Time -- The Death of a Jaybird -- A Laying on of Hands -- I'm Too Pretty to Die Tonight -- The Ties That Bind -- I'm Not a Slut in the Street -- The Things She Left Behind -- Some Useful Advice for Going to Meet Your Dead Loved One and Other Tragedies.

Summary:

"Reminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebody's Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often humorous collection of essays that explore the author's ever-changing relationships with her grandmother and mother, through sickness and health, as they experience the joys and challenges of Black American womanhood"-- Provided by publisher.

Personal Subject:

Savage, Jodi M., 1978-

Savage, Jodi M., 1978--Family.

Geographic Term:

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography

New York (N.Y.) -- Biography

Subject Term:

African American women--New York (State)--New York -- Biography

Black women--New York (State)--New York -- Biography

African American women -- Social conditions

Black women -- Social conditions

African American women -- Health and hygiene