Up Home: One Girl's Journey | Ruth J. Simmons Binding:Hardcover Dameron's debut novel

Dameron's debut novel

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National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity

Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness--a mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madness--and shipped away to Braxton's Finishing School and Sanitorium

Up Home: One Girl's Journey | Ruth J. Simmons Binding:Hardcover Dameron's debut novelNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Simmons's evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas, where she was the youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family, to the presidencies of Smith College and Brown University shines with tenderness and dignity." The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "A riveting work of literature, destined to take its place in the canon of great African American autobiographies." Henry Louis