{"product_id":"generations-a-memoir-new-york-review-classics","title":"Generations: A Memoir (New York Review Classics)","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGenerations: A Memoir (New York Review Classics)\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eTracy K. Clifton, Lucille; Smith\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781681375878\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNYRB Classics\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e104\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBuffalo, New York. A father's funeral. Memory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGenerations\u003c\/i\u003e, Lucille Clifton's formidable poetic gift emerges in prose, giving us a memoir of stark and profound beauty. Her story focuses on the lives of the Sayles family: Caroline, \"born among the Dahomey people in 1822,\" who walked north from New Orleans to Virginia in 1830 when she was eight years old; Lucy, the first black woman to be hanged in Virginia; and Gene, born with a withered arm, the son of a carpetbagger and the author's grandmother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eClifton tells us about the life of an African American family through slavery and hard times and beyond, the death of her father and grandmother, but also all the life and love and triumph that came before and remains even now. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eGenerations\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful work of determination and affirmation. \"I look at my husband,\" Clifton writes, \"and my children and I feel the Dahomey women gathering in my bones.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Generations: A Memoir (New York Review Classics) | Tracy K. Clifton, Lucille; Smith | Paperback | 9781681375878 | Used: Like New | Memoir 1572987 (temp: 6)","offer_id":48918093889688,"sku":"1572987","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81baizWL41L.jpg?v=1776978461","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/generations-a-memoir-new-york-review-classics","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}