Matriarch: Oprah's Book Club: A Memoir

by Tina Knowles

To lighten things, Solange got out her phone and pulled up a viral meme of a young trans woman saying, “See how I do my makeup for work? Very demure, very mindful.”

I set a photo of my mother next to a shot of Beyoncé as a girl, and then one of my father next to a favorite picture of Solange. People who were not on this earth for even one moment together yet seem to remain in conversation.