A review by thatbookinherbag
Generations: A Memoir by Lucille Clifton

inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

“Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.” 

This was a hidden gem. Written in 1976 by Lucille Clifton, an American poet, who mourns the loss of her father and reflects on the generations that came before her extending to Caroline Donald, born in 1822 among the Dahomey people before being captured and forced to go to America as a slave. Each member of the family is deeply connected by those who came before.

This was short, and nearly read like poetry. I thought it was beautiful, yet understated. So much was said in such few pages.