Circle Unbroken
Square Fish · Print & ebook · December 26, 2007
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- Who it’s for
- A family story carried through generations, with basket-making and memory at its center.
- Themes
- Intergenerational family stories, African heritage and enslavement, Passing down cultural traditions
- Genres
- Multigenerational Families, US: African American Stories, Historical Africa
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Start with this bookAbout this book
As she teaches her granddaughter to sew a traditional sweetgrass basket, a grandmother weaves a story, going back generations to her grandfather's village in faraway Africa. There, as a boy, he learned to make baskets so tightly woven they could hold the rain. Even after being stolen away to a slave ship bound for America, he remembers what he learned and passes these memories on to his children - as they do theirs.
What Hands Remember
A family story carried through generations, with basket-making and memory at its center.
Come here for
- Sweetgrass basket-making entwined with family memory
- A multigenerational thread reaching from Africa to America
Expect
- A grandmother teaching her granddaughter, and stories passed between generations
- Remembered skill alongside the history of enslavement
Where it sits
| Historical Africa | 39% |
|---|---|
| Multigenerational Families | 38% |
| US: African American Stories | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- US: African American Stories
- Multigenerational Families
- Values & Virtues
- Authors
- Margot Theis Raven
- Publisher
- Square Fish
- Published
- December 26, 2007
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Intergenerational family stories · African heritage and enslavement · Passing down cultural traditions
- Reading lane
- US: African American Stories