The Wreck: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother

"Fertility treatments can feel incredibly dehumanizing, as well as core-shaking. For Cassandra Jackson, they also became clarifying. Her desire for a biological child was intertwined with the incredible loss her father had suffered years before her birth: the deaths of five members of his family in a terrible car accident in rural Alabama. The tragedy haunted him for decades, but emboldened to learn more about it, she becomes closer to him. The wreck isn’t just the accident, it’s the emotional wreckage left behind and the incredible legacy of resilience that one Black father gives to his daughter."