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We Are Bridges

A Memoir

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We Are Bridges

By: Cassandra Lane
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When Cassandra Lane finds herself pregnant at 35, the knowledge sends her on a poignant exploration of memory to prepare for her entry into motherhood. She moves between the 20th-century rural South and present-day Los Angeles, reimagining the intimate life of her great-grandparents Mary Magdelene 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.

©2021 Cassandra Lane (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing
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I like her powerful story and her voice on the narrative is so smooth and clear.

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Loved it! It takes you on a passionate journey about life, family and, love.

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Cassandra weaves a stunning, mesmerizing, poignant story drawing the listener/reader in and holding us captive the entire memoir. Her cadence, though slightly halted at first, quickly smoothes and only positively adds to the experience of the story. Even after the audio reading finished, I could still hear her in my ear. Ms. Lane has masterfully woven her ancestry, raw history and her own, personal narrative into a beautiful memoir blanket of love, family, discovery and legacy. This is well, WELL worth the listen and/or read.

Mesmerizing!

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This memoir speaks to anyone with parents, or who has ever had a child or been a child, had or been a lover or a partner, or who takes even the slightest interest in the events that shape a life. What are you waiting for? Read this book now.

We are all bridges—

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