Tending to Our Wounds: A Diasporic Memoir

Tending to Our Wounds: A Diasporic Memoir - Paperback

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Tending to Our Wounds: A Diasporic Memoir

Tending to Our Wounds: A Diasporic Memoir - Paperback

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Book Overview

A profound and poetic memoir, tracing the wounds that racism and colonialism have left on Black people across borders.

With astute insight and immersive prose, Bonhomme outlines a personal and political history of life in the United States, Haiti, and Germany, discovering what it means to be Black at home and abroad. She unlearns the lies that she was told about slavery and colonialism and explores how communities are resisting the weight of centuries of history.

Whether examining debt, medical racism, art, or reparations, Tending to Our Wounds cuts a breathtaking course between the past and the present, the individual and the collective--identifying the tendrils of history in the everyday and outlining a path to real freedom.

ISBN9798888905951
Author Edna Bonhomme
PublisherHaymarket Books
GenreBiography and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages390
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Edna Bonhomme

Edna Bonhomme is a historian of science, culture writer, and book critic whose work has appeared in Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, Esquire, Frieze magazine, The Guardian, The Nation, London Review of Books, The Washington Post, and more. She is coeditor of After Sex, a collection of essays, poems, and short stories. She earned a PhD from Princeton University, a master's degree from Columbia University, and a bachelor's degree from Reed College. She previously held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Camargo Foundation, Baldwin for the Arts, and Nancy B. Negley Artists Residency Program at Maison Dora Maar. Edna is a recipient of the Robert Silvers Foundation Grant for Works in Progress and the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Grant.

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