Chapter 16

Healing the Mother Wound

Sarai Johnson’s debut novel is a deeply moving, multigenerational exploration of womanhood and motherhood

By Tonya Abari | June 28, 2024

Sarai Johnson’s debut novel, Grown Women, is an eloquent story of multiple generations of Black women navigating their lives against a nonlinear backdrop of American motherhood.

“Haunting My Own Name”

Julian Randall’s lyrical memoir uncovers the past to light a brighter future

By Tonya Abari | May 2, 2024

Comprised of braided essays which use key pop-culture moments to weave together stories of triumph and personal exploration, Julian Randall’s The Dead Don’t Need Reminding unearths grief and deeply rooted family histories.

Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee

Katherine J. Ballentyne
University of Georgia Press
244 pages
$29.95

“Radical Volunteers tells the largely unknown story of southern student activism in Tennessee between the Brown decision in 1954 and the national backlash against the Kent State University shootings in May 1970. As one of the first statewide studies of student activism—and one of the few examinations of southern student activism—it broadens scholarly understanding of New Left and Black student radicalism from its traditionally defined hotbeds in the Northeast and on the West Coast.”

~the publisher