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Barcode30293102369225
LocationClark County
Call NoLT 305.48896 Bone
TitleThe waterbearers : a memoir of mothers and daughters / Sasha Bonet.
AuthorBonet, Sasha, author.
CollectionNF Large Type
Total Circ0
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293102369225LT 305.48896 Bone3/19/2026 AvailableClark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9798891647398 (hardback ; alk. paper ; large print)
Personal Name Bonet, Sasha, author.
Title Statement The waterbearers : a memoir of mothers and daughters / Sasha Bonet.
Edition Statement Center Point Large Print edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2026.
Physical Description 437 pages (large print) : illustrations, genealogical table ; 23 cm.
General Note Regular print version previously published by: Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Summary, Etc. "Sasha Bonet grew up in 1990s Houston, worlds removed from the Louisiana cotton plantation that raised her grandmother, Betty Jean, and the Texas bayous that shaped Sasha's mother, Connie. And though each generation did better, materially, than the last, all of them carried the complex legacy of Black American motherhood with its origins in slavery. All of them knew that the hands used to comb and braid hair, shell pecans, and massage weary muscles were the very hands used to whip children into submission. When she had her own daughter, Sofia, Bonet was determined to interrupt this tradition. She brought Sofia to New York and set off on a journey-not only up and down the tributaries of her bloodline but also into the lives of Black women in history and literature--Betty Davis, Recy Taylor, and Iberia Hampton among them--to understand both the love and pain they passed on to their children and to create a way of mothering that honors the legacy but abandons the violence that shaped it."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject-Personal Name Bonet, Sasha.
Subject-Personal Name Bonet, Sasha Family.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Large type books.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Motherhood.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African American families.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African American women Biography.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Single mothers Biography.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African American single mothers Biography.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women, Black Biography.
Index Term-Genre/Form Biographies.
Index Term-Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Index Term-Genre/Form Family histories.
Index Term-Genre/Form Large print books.

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