Matriarch: A Memoir General Fiction She was raised in isolation

She was raised in isolation by a mysterious

there’s a southern side to every place in the world

I also wish that the same person had been there to reassure me that I would survive and even flourish

finally illuminating a distinctly robust sector of contemporary literature: groundbreaking short stories that explore the thin yet imperative line between Black girlhood and womanhood

For more than three decades as a practicing Ob/Gyn in the nation’s capital and now as chief medical officer of Alloy Women’s Health

Matriarch: A Memoir General Fiction She was raised in isolationA revealing personal life story like no otherenlightening, entertaining, surprising, empoweringand a testament to the world making power of Black motherhood You are Celestine, she said. She squatted to push the hair off my face and pull leaves off my pajama legs. Like my sister and my grandmother. And there, under the pecan tree, as she did countless times, that day my mother told me stories of the mothers and daughters that went before me. Tina