The death of a jaybird : essays on mothers and daughters and the things they leave behind /

Savage, Jodi M., 1978-

The death of a jaybird : essays on mothers and daughters and the things they leave behind / Essays on mothers and daughters and the things they leave behind Jodi M. Savage. - First edition. - 227 pages ; $c 21 cm

What If : On Black Lives and Mental Health -- Searching for Salvation at Antioch -- How to Attend a Black Funeral -- Running Out of Time -- The Death of a Jaybird -- A Laying on of Hands -- I'm Too Pretty to Die Tonight -- The Ties That Bind -- I'm Not a Slut in the Street -- The Things She Left Behind -- Some Useful Advice for Going to Meet Your Dead Loved One and Other Tragedies.

"Reminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebody's Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often humorous collection of essays that explore the author's ever-changing relationships with her grandmother and mother, through sickness and health, as they experience the joys and challenges of Black American womanhood"--

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Savage, Jodi M., 1978-
Savage, Jodi M., 1978- --Family.


African American women--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
African American women--Social conditions.
African American women--Health and hygiene.
Breast--Cancer--Patients--Biography.
African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
Grief.


Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Biography.
New York (N.Y.)--Biography.

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