TY  - BOOK
AU  - Savage,Jodi M.
TI  - The death of a jaybird: essays on mothers and daughters and the things they leave behind 
SN  - 9780063276086
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - HarperPerennial
KW  - Savage, Jodi M.,
KW  - African American women
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Biography
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Breast
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Patients
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Grief
KW  - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -