In the County of Women is a deeply personal memoir told through the tapestry of three generations of women in one sprawling, multiracial, multiethnic extended family. Mothers, grandmothers, aunts and nieces tackle head-on the searing realities of gender, race and class oppressions, but emerge in their stories as heroines, each of an often-perilous odyssey. Its […]
Right on cue, it’s starting to feel like fall. The leaves are changing colors, and the tomato plants on my porch are begging to be tilled over for carrots. It’s time to start thinking about unearthing your warmer wardrobe and searching for the mates to any singleton gloves you might still have laying about. Here […]