The House of Being Binding:Hardcover as sisters

as sisters

Bettina Aptheker

eminent black historian Nell Irvin Painter goes beyond the myths

by photographer Thandiwe Muriu

The author

The House of Being Binding:Hardcover as sistersIn a shotgun house in Gulfport, Mississippi, at the crossroads of Highway 49, the legendary highway of the Blues, and Jefferson Street, Natasha Trethewey learned to read and write. Before the land was a crossroads, however, it was a pasture: a farming settlement where, after the Civil War, a group of formerly enslaved women, men, and children made a new home. In this intimate and searching meditation, Trethewey revisits the geography of her childhood