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Yes.
they are a murder of silver crows.
Mine are black crows.
That’s my picture!
Simile
Yes, they hiss.
Simile extended ewww
Richie
Her eyes Michael’s, her nose Leonie’s, the set of her shoulders Pop’s, and the way she looks upward, like she is measuring the tree, all Mam.
the way she takes all the pieces of everybody and holds them together,
Casper,
the shaggy black neighborhood dog. Also the friendly ghost? Haha
So Kayla begins to sing,
Simile
She waves her hand in the air as she sings, and I know it, know the movement, know it’s how Leonie rubbed my back, rubbed Kayla’s back, when we were frightened of the world.
Yes.
like she remembers the sound of the water in Leonie’s womb, the sound of all water, and now she sings it.
the gap in parenting intelligence between Jojo and his mother,
she just can’t see past that pain to move beyond herself and focus attention on her children.
he had Pop as a model—he
we carry family history inside us like ghosts.
It was easier to make him an actual ghost once I discovered that Richie was a ghost.
I did not know those things before I read that book.
I’ve never written anything where the ghost is telling this story.
I had to invent this supernatural afterlife.
feel really lucky and honored to be given this platform where I’m able to write about things like Parchman Prison, the epidemic of lynching in the American South, and to reach an audience.
"Parchman Farm" or "Parchman Farm Blues" is a blues song first recorded by American Delta blues musician Bukka White in 1940. It is an autobiographical piece, in which White sings of his experience at the infamous Mississippi State Penitentiary, otherwise known as Parchman Farm. ~ Wikipedia
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