Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters Globalization The Light We Carry inspires

The Light We Carry inspires readers to examine their own lives

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Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters Globalization The Light We Carry inspires"An epic love song and remarkable ballad of generations." Leslie Jamison "I couldn't write about Black motherhood without writing about America." Sasha Bont Sasha Bont grew up in 1990s Houston, worlds removed from the Louisiana cotton plantation that raised her grandmother, Betty Jean, and the Texas bayous that shaped Sasha's mother, Connie. And though each generation did better, materially, than the last, all of them carried the complex legacy of