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The death of a jaybird : essays on mothers and daughters and the things they leave behind
- Title
- The death of a jaybird : essays on mothers and daughters and the things they leave behind / Jodi M. Savage.
- Author
- Savage, Jodi M., 1978-
- Publication
- New York, NY : HarperPerennial, [2023]
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- Alternative Title
- Essays on mothers and daughters and the things they leave behind
- Subject
- Savage, Jodi M., 1978-
- Savage, Jodi M., 1978- > Family
- African American women > New York (State) > New York > Biography
- African American women > Social conditions
- African American women > Health and hygiene
- Breast > Cancer > Patients > Biography
- African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Biography
- Grief
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Biography
- New York (N.Y.) > Biography
- Black author
- Breast
- Erogenous body parts
- Family members
- Secondary sex characteristics
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Essays.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc D 24-57
- ISBN
- 9780063276086
- 0063276089
- LCCN
- 2023017893
- OCLC
- 1371399953
- Author
- Savage, Jodi M., 1978- author.
- Title
- The death of a jaybird : essays on mothers and daughters and the things they leave behind / Jodi M. Savage.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : HarperPerennial, [2023]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Description
- 227 pages ; 21 cm
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Summary
- "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.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 24-57