Your Mother Was A Panther: Stories in Verse

Black women are not a monolith. They are many things-beautiful and mysterious. Through magical and musical verse, Mixon offers alternative narratives, origin stories that challenge the limited societal views of women whose mere existence is at times a mystery, an amalgam of experiences-inherited and otherwise. An orphan (who is adopted by a storm) tries to hold thunder in her mouth; a battered grandmother taps into her ancestral powers; an adolescent girl befriends a woman at the end of her life; a young woman searches for her elusive mother; a pregnant woman prepares to give birth as her husband is dying; familial love keeps music alive; and Harlem is running late.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Mixon, Tara Ngozi
Published: 07/11/2017
Publisher: Faradai Press
ISBN: 9780692461181
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.36d