![]() ![]() ![]() In this narrative, Lane seeks an origin story, searching for what facts are available and wondering about the legacy she is passing on to a child she avoided having until she was 36. But sometimes, buried in this suppressed language is an ancestor-the power in a name.” In 1904, her great-grandfather Burt was lynched before he had a chance to meet his son, a tragic story that, though largely forgotten in broader historical contexts, is obviously still a wound for the family. Even as unknowns become known, however, “we press to silence any and all language that elicits pain. “This story is a hybrid-a romance and a horror, a memoir and a fiction-forged out of what is known and what is unknown,” writes Lane at the beginning. A prospective mother searches for-and at times invents-a creation story for her family that she can share with her future child. ![]()
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