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Up Home, September 2023
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One Girl's Journey
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Random House Publishing Group
September 2023
On Sale: September 5, 2023
224 pages
ISBN: 0593446003
EAN: 9780593446003
Kindle: B0B1BV2VWK
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Non-Fiction Biography
An inspiring, indelible memoir from the daughter of
sharecroppers in East Texas who became the first Black
president of an Ivy League university—an uplifting
story of girlhood and the power of family, community, and
the classroom to transform one young person’s life
I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history,
a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroad in
North Houston County in East Texas.
Born in 1945,
Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers.
Her first home had no running water, no electricity, no
books to read. Yet despite this—or, in her words,
because of it—Simmons would become one of
America’s preeminent educators. The former president
of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View
A&M, Texas’s oldest HBCU, Simmons has inspired
generations of students as she herself made history.
In Up Home, Simmons takes us back to
Grapeland to show how the people who love us when we are
young shape who we become. We meet her caring, tireless
mother who managed to feed her large family with an often
empty pantry; her father, who refused to let racial and
economic injustice crush his youngest daughter’s
dreams; the doting brothers and sisters; and the attentive
teachers who welcomed Ruth into the classroom, guiding her
to a future she could hardly imagine as a child.
From the farmland of East Texas to Houston’s Fifth
Ward to New Orleans at the dawn of the civil rights
movement, Simmons depicts an era long gone but whose
legacies of inequality we still live with today. Written in
clear and timeless prose, Up Home is both an
origin story set in the segregated South and the uplifting
chronicle of a girl whose intellect, grace, and curiosity
guide her as she creates a place for herself in the world.
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