By Kathya Alexander

"Not since THE COLOR PURPLE has a book come along that will open the minds and hearts of all who read it. If you were alive in the last century, and even if you didn't arrive until this century, this story will fill a major gap in your understanding of American history. They sure as hell didn't teach it to us in school, but some of us lived it. Kathya Alexander's writing is brilliant, evocative, and this is a book students of literature will be studying for a long, long time. Think Zora Neale Hurston. Think Toni Morrison. Think bell hooks. "

Paula Coomer, Author of Somebody Should Have Scolded The Girl