My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter Format:Paperback Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay

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Her obsessive-compulsive disorder

who’s a famous singer in Japan last she heard

This is a face of the Cold War you’ve never seen before

My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter Format:Paperback Roxane GayMy Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet Aja Monets ode to mothers, daughters, and sistersthe tiny gods who fight to change the world. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.