| Portion of title |
Essays on mothers and daughters and the things they leave behind |
| Contents |
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. |
| Abstract |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Savage, Jodi M., 1978- Death of a jaybird. First edition New York, NY : HarperPerennial, [2023] 9780063276093 |
| Genre/form | autobiographies (literary works) |
| Genre/form | autobiographies (literary works) |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| LCCN | 2023017893 |
| ISBN | 9780063276086 paperback |
| ISBN | 0063276089 paperback |
