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Tara stringfellow author6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn’t the first time an extreme act of malevolence rocked the North family’s foundation, though.Įach woman’s power to choose her own future is challenged as time moves forward. A horrible abuse was perpetrated against Miriam’s 10-year-old, Joan, in that house. But there’s unresolved history looming behind the yellow door of their stately familial residence. The younger of the North sisters, August, gladly welcomes Miriam home. After an incident of violence ends nearly two decades of marriage, Miriam packs up her little girls and returns to her ancestral home in Douglass, a community North Memphis, to start over. She thought she found it in the dashing Marine who swept her off her feet and - much to her mother Hazel’s chagrin - moved her away from home. Miriam North has craved “simple, Black love” all her life. The beautiful and bold North women persevere through an inheritance of brutality and injustice, and the lasting impact of generational trauma, on the road to actualizing their independence. ![]() Stringfellow’s “Memphis” is a lyrical novel told in vignettes centered around the sorrows and joys of four Black women from a Tennessee family. ![]()
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