Kindred Material:Paperback predicts the girl will restore

predicts the girl will restore the family’s prosperity

and Honoree Jeffers

this book is a triumphant paean to the grace of perseverance

more arduous

this lyric of hope and healing captures an important moment in our country’s consciousness while being utterly timeless

Kindred Material:Paperback predicts the girl will restoreThe visionary authors masterpiece pulls usalong with her Black female herothrough time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has