A profoundly moving childhood memoir by a noted poet, essayist, teacher, and journalist
A not uncommon story is here captured with astonishing beauty-the childhood of a gifted daughter whose immigrant
parents must struggle in order to provide her with the educational and social opportunities not available to them or, for
that matter, to most blacks of her generation.
In vivid prose that re-creates the heady impressions of youth, June Jordan takes us to the Harlem and Brooklyn
neighborhoods where she lived and out into the larger landscape of her burgeoning imagination. Exploring the nature of
memory, writing, and familial as well as social responsibility, Jordan re-creates the world in which her identity as a social
and artistic revolutionary was forged.
