Greetings, writers—
When I was in high school, my mom gave me In Search of our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker. I didn’t read nonfiction unless forced to back then—I was crushing on F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, plus I was still working my way through all those Madeline L’Engle books (there are so many Austin and O’Keefe novels!)—so this excellent collection of essays sat on my shelf for many years before I opened it.
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