When Cassandra Lane finds herself pregnant at thirty-five, the knowledge sends her on a poignant exploration of memory to prepare for her entry into motherhood. She moves between the twentieth-century rural South and present-day Los Angeles, reimagining the intimate life of her great-grandparents Mary Magdelene Magee and Burt Bridges, and Burt’s lynching at the hands of vengeful white men in his southern town.
We Are Bridges turns to creative nonfiction to reclaim a family history from violent erasure so that a mother can gift her child with an ancestral blueprint for their future. Haunting and poetic, this debut traces the strange fruit borne from the roots of personal loss in one Black family—and considers how to take back one’s American story.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Psychology
Length8 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJun 19, 2021
LanguageEnglish
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About the author
Cassandra Lane
Cassandra Lane is the winner of the 2020 Louise Meriwether First Book Prize, and managing editor of LA Parent magazine. She previously worked as a newspaper reporter, high school teacher, community relations manager for the Dodgers, and senior communications writer. She received an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles. A Louisiana native, she has lived in Los Angeles since 2001.View all by Cassandra Lane
