Black Is The Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, And Mine

"Emily Bernard writes that she “conceived” this book in a hospital as she recovered from a stabbing, a “bizarre act of violence” that helped set her “free” as a storyteller. Bernard’s scarred intestines become a metaphor for her writing style: winding, messy and very personal. All of these essays are about race and are rooted, autobiographically, in the blackness of Bernard’s own body. She writes about living and teaching in the snow globe state of Vermont, as well as her own interracial marriage. Every single one of these 12 essays is unforgettable."