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Joan was only a child the last time she visited Memphis. She doesn't remember the bustle of Beale Street on a summer's night. She doesn't know she's as likely to hear a gunshot ring out as the sound of children playing. How the smell of honeysuckle is almost overwhelming as she climbs the porch steps to the house where her mother grew up. But when the front door opens, she does remember Derek. This house full of history is home to the women of the North family.

An electrifying collection of poems that tells a universal tale of survival and revolution through the lens of Black femininity. Tara Stringfellow embraces complexity, grappling with the sometimes painful, sometimes wonderful way two conflicting things can be true at the same time. How it's possible to have a strong voice and also feel silenced. To be loyal to things and people that betray us. To burn as hot with rage as we do with love.

Dans la chaleur étouffante de l'été 1995, après un énième débordement de colère de son père, Joan North trouve refuge avec sa mère et sa jeune sœur dans la majestueuse maison qui a vu les femmes de sa famille grandir. Tapissé de lierre et de chèvrefeuille où nichent colibris, abeilles et papillons, ce verdoyant havre de paix semble raconter sa propre histoire. En poussant la gigantesque porte de bois, Joan sait qu'elle va découvrir d'innombrables fantômes. Celui de son grand-père, lynché après être devenu le premier inspecteur noir de la ville.