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Author:
Cassandra Lane
Publisher:
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Date:
April 20, 2021
A pregnant Los Angeles journalist in her mid-30s constructs a family history for her unborn child from fragments of information and memories. Moving between the present and early 20th century rural Louisiana, Lane imagines the intimate life of her great-grandparents Mary Magdelene Magee and Burt Bridgesâwhose death by lynching traumatized generations of his family to come.
What The Reviewers Say
We Are Bridges is Lane's resurrection of her great grandfather's memory. Her poignant requiem has deep reverberations today.
Drawing on family stories and scraps of truth, Lane reconstructs rich histories.
Though the interplay between the two voices is sometimes uneven, and the imagined scenes lack some of the poetry of the straightforward memoir sections, the text is still valuable as an investigation of the undeniable force of intergenerational trauma, especially as it pertains to the Black community. A multiangled exploration of family trauma and the forging of an identity..
