{"product_id":"black-is-the-body-stories-from-my-grandmothers-time-my-mothers-time-and-mine-9781101972410","title":"Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.\" \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee shop, marrying a white man from the North and bringing him home to her family, adopting two children from Ethiopia, and living and teaching in a primarily white New England college town. Each of these essays sets out to discover a new way of talking about race and of telling the truth as the author has lived it. \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlack Is the Body\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most beautiful, elegant memoirs I've ever read. It's about race, it's about womanhood, it's about friendship, it's about a life of the mind, and also a life of the body. But more than anything, it's about love. I can't praise Emily Bernard enough for what she has created in these pages.\" --Elizabeth Gilbert \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PROSE \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003eS\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eONE OF MAUREEN CORRIGAN'S 10 UNPUTDOWNABLE READS OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEMILY BERNARD was born and grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and received her PhD in American studies from Yale University. She has been the recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation, the NEH, and a W. E. B. Du Bois Resident Fellowship at Harvard University. Her essays have been published in journals and anthologies, among them \u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar, Best American Essays, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Best African American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the Julian Lindsay Green and Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50873162039570,"sku":"9781101972410","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e919f087-0422-4377-b938-c018babf7288.jpg?v=1737921973","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/black-is-the-body-stories-from-my-grandmothers-time-my-mothers-time-and-mine-9781101972410","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}