EXCERPT FROM AUNT GRACE’S WRITINGS
I cherish my aunt’s stories. As I write mine, Love Imagined, I try to make sense of how my mother’s “secret” family has influenced me:
Grandfather Grandmother and Baby
Mama’s mother was a brown skinned girl of fifteen when the red-haired plantation owner’s son lured her with a ham and his own char-r-min self. Perhaps, too, she was flattered by this attention. At any rate, Mama was conceived and came into the world the only light face among many black children. She had a rather rough time of it.
-Grace Williams
Sherry Quan Lee
Posted 6/6/2012
