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“The 1st Sunday of every month is our Patreon Community Check-in - we discuss our writing goals and talk to a special guest about their craft & creative rituals. Author @cassandra.lane71 is joining us for March!

Her new memoir WE ARE BRIDGES is out on April 20th. Right now, I’m obsessed with all things personal narrative and memoir...Cassandra’s writing & family story is quite exceptional. LISTEN !!! Here’s the book summary:

“When Cassandra Lane finds herself pregnant at thirty-five, the knowledge sends her on a poignant exploration of memory to prepare for her entry into motherhood. She moves between the twentieth-century rural South and present-day Los Angeles, reimagining the intimate life of her great-grandparents Mary Magdelene Magee and Burt Bridges, and Burt's lynching at the hands of vengeful white men in his southern town.

We Are Bridges turns to creative nonfiction to reclaim a family history from violent erasure so that a mother can gift her child with an ancestral blueprint for their future. Haunting and poetic, this debut traces the strange fruit borne from the roots of personal loss in one Black family—and considers how to take back one’s American story.”

Get your copy from @feministpress or at your local bookstore 📚❤️”