Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee shop while taking graduate studies at Yale, marrying a white man from the north and bring him home to her family, adopting two babies from Ethiopia, and living and teaching in a primarily white New England college town. Each of these essays goes beyond a narrative of black innocence and white guilt and sets out to discover a new way of telling the truth as the author has lived it.--Provided by publisher.

• | Author: Emily Bernard
• | Publisher: Vintage
• | Publication Date: December 03, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1101972416
• | ISBN-13: 9781101972410