New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - A personal and moving memoir by this award-winning poet, the story of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather - a book in which she explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. As she follows the tragic course of her mother's life, she delves into the ways her own life was shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience and her own girlhood as a "child of miscegenation" in Mississippi, as well as a look at the enduring effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Winner of the Southern Book Prize for Nonfiction, a New York Times Notable Book, and more. 213 pp. ISBN: 978-0062248572.