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| Title Statement | The love you save: a memoir / Goldie Taylor. |
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| Author | Taylor, Goldie |
| Publication | Toronto, Ontario: Hanover Square Press,[2023]℗♭2023 |
| Extent of Item | 277 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9781335449375 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr06774645 |
| Summary | "Aunt Gerald takes in anyone who asks, but the conditions are harsh. For her young niece Goldie Taylor, abandoned by her mother and coping with trauma of her own, life in Gerald's East St. Louis comes with nothing but a threadbare blanket on the living room floor. But amid the pain and anguish, Goldie discovers a secret. She can find kinship among writers like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. She can find hope in a nurturing teacher who helps her find her voice. And books, she realizes, can save her life. Goldie Taylor's debut memoir shines a light on the strictures of race, class and gender in a post-Jim Crow America while offering a nuanced, empathetic portrait of a family in a pitched battle for its very soul."-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Abandoned children--Biography |
| African American families | |
| African American women journalists--Biography | |
| African Americans--Social conditions | |
| Authors, American--Biography--21st century | |
| Kinship care | |
| Women journalists--Biography--United States | |
| By Name | Taylor, Goldie |
| By Location | East Saint Louis (Ill.)--Biography |
| By Genre | Biographies |
| Autobiographies | |
| Personal narratives | |
