Margo Jefferson: Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir [2022] paperback Condition:New she began writing short works

she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance

Why do layers of mythology build up around particular features in the landscape

decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful

Soon Grace sets up a new and precarious life in this lush

helping the reader to fill in the gaps and put each story into the context of the rest of his father's writings

Margo Jefferson: Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir [2022] paperback Condition:New she began writing short worksTaking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be as incarnated by trailblazing Black dancers and athletes Harriet Beecher Stowe's Topsy reimagined in the artworks of Kara Walker, white supremacy in the novels of Willa Cather, and more, this breathtakingly eloquent account is both a critique and a vindication of the constructed self.