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A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother
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Viking
May 2023
On Sale: May 16, 2023
Featuring: Cassandra Jackson
320 pages
ISBN: 0593490029
EAN: 9780593490020
Kindle: B0B9W5W5R6
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Multicultural African-American | Non-Fiction Biography
There is a secret that young Cassandra Jackson
doesn’t know, and it’s evident in the way her
father cries her name out in his sleep. It’s not until
she meets her extended family for the first time that she
realizes she is named after—and looks eerily
like—her father's niece, who was killed in a car wreck
along with her father's beloved mother, his only sister,
and—as she soon discovers—his first wife.
In this compelling memoir, Jackson retraces
her and her family’s past and finds a single common
thread: the medical malpractice and neglect whose effects
have caused needless loss and suffering in her family.
It’s as she steps back further that she realizes this
single thread touches every single Black family in America,
turning this deeply personal memoir into a political call to
action. Jackson offers an eye-opening look at how
administrative procedures and political maneuvers that seem
far from our everyday lives dictate life-or-death
consequences for individuals, highlighting this as a piece
of American history we still have the chance to course
correct.
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