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Daniel Black’s Don’t Cry for Me and Issac’s Song

Book Review By Dr. Brenda M. Greene “Words let you outlive yourself. They take your energy, your life force, and speak for you long after you’re gone.”Black (Issac’s Song, 308) Daniel Black’s novels, Don’t Cry for Me (Hanover Square Press, 2022) and Issac’s Song (Hanover Press,...
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Sasha Bonét’s The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters

Book Review- Our Time Press By Dr. Brenda M. Greene “Stories Always Come Back in the Water” - Bonét (26) Sasha Bonét’s The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters (Alfred Knopf, 2025) draws from Tony Morrison’s classic essay, “The Site of Memory.”  Morrison posits that “All water has a...

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