(“Why do they look like that?” she asks her father. She calls on Sundays, and sends videotapes of “The Wizard of Oz” and “The Sound of Music,” the first time Tutu has seen white skin.
an elder, explains to her that “all of our dead and missing were resting peacefully in wandering clouds,” telling us “forgotten things” through the rain.īut 5-year-old Tutu’s Mam isn’t dead she’s in America, studying at Columbia University on a Fulbright scholarship. THE DRAGONS, THE GIANT, THE WOMEN A Memoir By Wayétu MooreĪ little girl runs outside her home in Monrovia, Liberia, during a rainstorm, thinking she hears her absent mother’s voice, “full of laughter and long ago.”An “Ol’ Ma,” i.e.
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