Come August, Come Freedom Quotes

“Nanny had thought she might lose the child from her grief. At night when she rolled over in the bed and went to drape her leg across Gabriel’s, finding him gone, the ache in Nanny’s chest moved up to her throat, then down to her womb.”
― Gigi Amateau, Come August, Come Freedom: The Bellows, the Gallows, and the Black General Gabriel