A review by bibliobrandie
Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse by Alora Young

4.0

"The only way to tell this story is through poetry. Because black girlhood is eternally laced with rhythm." In this memoir-in-verse, Young traces her ancestry back to Amy Coleman, an enslaved woman who bore her white enslaver's child. Young appears seven generations later. Through beautiful poetry, Young explores the lives of her foremothers, Black girlhood, womanhood, and American history.

"Mothers are harshest when their hope is helping you avoid making the mistakes that had once their own."