{"product_id":"go-back-and-get-it-a-memoir-of-race-inheritance-and-intergenerational-healing-9781645030133","title":"Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unexpected family photograph leads Dionne Ford to uncover the stories of her enslaved female ancestors, reclaim their power, and begin to heal \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is Dionne Ford, whose great grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker and the enslaved woman he received as a wedding gift. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What shapes does this kind of intergenerational trauma take? In these pages, which move between her inner life and deep research, Ford tells us. It manifests as alcoholism and post-traumatic stress; it finds echoes in her own experience of sexual abuse at the hands of a relative, and in the ways in which she builds her own interracial family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To heal, Ford tries a wide range of therapies, lifestyle changes, and recovery meetings. \"Anything,\" she writes, \"to keep from going back there.\" But what she learns is that she needs to go back there, to return to her female ancestors, and unearth what she can about them to start to feel whole. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDionne Ford\u003c\/b\u003e is an NEA creative writing fellow and the co-editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eSlavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation \u003c\/i\u003e(Rutgers University Press). Her work has appeared in the\u003ci\u003e New York Times, Literary Hub, New Jersey Monthly, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Rumpus, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEbony\u003c\/i\u003e and won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and the Newswomen's Club of New York. She holds a BA from Fordham University and an MFA from New York University. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and daughters.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bold Type Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631807435026,"sku":"9781645030133","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e5410048-9438-405a-87ca-463abedc4136.jpg?v=1732784673","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/go-back-and-get-it-a-memoir-of-race-inheritance-and-intergenerational-healing-9781645030133","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}