{"product_id":"the-water-bearers-by-sasha-bonet","title":"The Water Bearers by Sasha Bonét","description":"\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003eA powerful new voice, telling the American story through three generations of Black mothers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003eSasha Bonét grew up in 1990s Houston, worlds removed from the Louisiana cotton plantation that raised her grandmother, Betty Jean, and the Texas bayous that shaped Sasha’s mother, Connie. And though each generation did better, materially, than the last, all of them carried the complex legacy of Black American motherhood with its origins in slavery. All of them knew that the hands used to comb and braid hair, shell pecans, and massage weary muscles were the very hands used to whip children into submission.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003eWhen she had her own daughter, Sofia, Bonét was determined to interrupt this tradition. She brought Sofia to New York and set off on a journey—not only up and down the tributaries of her bloodline but also into the lives of Black women in history and literature—Betty Davis, Recy Taylor, and Iberia Hampton among them—to understand both the love and pain they passed on to their children and to create a way of mothering that honors the legacy but abandons the violence that shaped it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003eThe Waterbearers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e is a dazzling and transformative work of American storytelling that reimagines not just how we think of Black women, but how we think of ourselves—as individuals, parents, communities, and a country.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003eAuthor Info:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003eSASHA BONÉT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e is a writer and cultural critic based in New York City. Her criticism and essays have appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003eAperture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003eNew York\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e Magazine, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003eVogue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003eBOMB\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e, among other publications. 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