This award will let me continue to do this work, but for the first time in my entire life, I can do it with a little bit of freedom, and that means the world. More than a decade ago, Mira fled her small, segregated hometown in the south to forget. I write for her, for other women like her, and for women like me-those who’ve felt invisible their whole lives, not counted, never seen. Megan Giddings, author of Lakewood A haunting novel about a black woman who returns to her hometown for a plantation wedding and the horror that ensues as she reconnects with the blood-soaked history of the land and the best friends she left behind.
She was never seen in the ways she should have been. While my mother died long before I could ever show her the path I’d managed to carve out for myself, I still think of her with everything that I write. Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts.
Every time I try to think about what has happened, what receiving this award means, I feel a tightness in my chest and a raw ache in my throat, forming a choke, and I think of my mother who sacrificed so much in her life so that I could be allowed to dream just a little bit, so that I could even consider the possibility of pursuing writing as a worthwhile endeavor, and while it’s still been a long struggle for me filled with a lot of my own years of job insecurity, of part-time and low-paid work, I dreamed anyway in the hope that one day I could show her that her sacrifices weren’t all in vain. A Novel By: LaTanya McQueen Narrated by: Kara Young Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins 4.1 (190 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases.
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