One With Others

In this National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, C. D. Wright returns to her native Arkansas and examines explosive incidents grounded in the Civil Rights Movement. In her signature style, Wright interweaves oral histories, hymns, lists, interviews, newspaper accounts, and personal memoriesespecially those of her incandescent mentor, Mrs. Vittitowwith the voices of witnesses, neighbors, police, and activists. This history leaps howling off the page.