A review by dpearson5257
Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse by Alora Young

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Loved this piece of art so much! This book spans over generations of the history of this country through her (our) people, through slavery, through segregation, through the Black Tax, through still not being “good enough”, to being what our ancestors fought for. This was such an inspiring piece and I’m so impressed with the authors way of words and visualizing everything. This is a tough read as anything that’s true with our history, it’s not black and white like our history books want us to believe it is now. The only very very tiny issue I had was the timeline and the characters in the beginning, you think you’re following one timeline of a family but really it’s the family but still it’s the black community as a black people in it’s entirety. 
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