The waterbearers: a memoir of mothers and daughters

Trama

Here is a masterpiece of life writing by a thrilling new voice, a writer who will remake how we think of generations. Betty Jean spent twenty summers in the swamplands of Louisiana as a cotton tenant farmer before going north to Texas in the Great Migration. It was there that she would raise her eleven children, most by different fathers whom she rarely kept around.

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