![]() ![]() ![]() It is a story, and I do not mean to offend anyone with it,” Buchanan declares at the outset, in the author’s note. Weekly contributor refuses to “keep her mouth” as she uncovers her family’s complicated history - a fascinating and often-shocking story of madness, racism, genocide, perseverance, love and loyalty that mirrors the secret history of the United States - even as her sleuthing and multigenerational soul searching angers many of her relatives. ![]() “I think my mother could see in my wet eyes when I was born that I didn’t know how to keep my mouth, the way she would say it - I often felt like my stomach was on fire if I didn’t say the thing burning in my mouth,” Shonda Buchanan writes in her compelling new memoir, Black Indian (Wayne State University Press). ![]()
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