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As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride).
In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee, borrowed $100 from her brother to run a numbers...
In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee, borrowed $100 from her brother to run a numbers...
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"When Cassandra Lane becomes pregnant at thirty-five, the knowledge sends her on a poignant exploration of memory in order to prepare for motherhood. We Are Bridges is the realization of this journey, a memoir that weaves personal narrative and speculation together in order to rescue the lives of Cassandra's great-grandparents, Mary Magdalene Magee and Burt Bridges, from historical erasure. Shifting between present-day Los Angeles and the early twentieth-century...
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