Memphis A Novel by Tara M. Stringfellow booksSummer 1995: Ten year old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her fathers explosive temper and seek refuge at her mothers ancestral home in Memphis. This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the familys trajectory. Half a century earlier, Joans grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglassonly to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in the city. Joan tries to
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built families and self-acceptance
Is there anything that she would change if she could
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