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We Are Bridges

Cassandra Lane

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English
Feminist Press at The City University of New York
29 June 2021
A lyrical memoir reconstructing the lost history of a Black American family.

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 Magdalene 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.
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Imprint:   Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 204mm,  Width: 140mm, 
ISBN:   9781952177927
ISBN 10:   1952177928
Pages:   232
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Cassandra Lanemagazine and formerly served on the board of the AROHO Foundation.

Reviews for We Are Bridges

In this evocative memoir, Cassandra Lane deftly uses the act of imagination to reclaim her ancestor's story as a backdrop for telling her own. She renders each interior life with such tenderness and toughness that the tradition of black women's storytelling leaps forward within these pages--into fresh, daring and excitingly new territory. Lane's compelling voice couldn't be more timely. --Bridgett M. Davis, author of The World According to Fannie Davis Cassandra Lane approaches motherhood, generational trauma, and hope (and fear) for the future from a multitude of angles in a personal story that is utterly captivating. Her writing is beautiful and truly embraces readers. --Jennifer Baker, editor of Everyday People: The Color of Life We Are Bridges is a groundbreaking, lyrical patchwork of historical research, imagined pasts and futures, and personal narrative that tethers together multiple generations of the Bridges family, multiple generations of trauma borne from slavery, and multiple simultaneous truths. It is a story that has not yet been told and one that many will feel in their cells and bones. --KaeLyn Rich, author of Girls Resist! In We Are Bridges, Cassandra Lane boldly investigates the connections between transgenerational trauma, personal love, and the burden of memory. Her heartfelt memoir will stay with you. --YZ Chin, author of Though I Get Home


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