"The story is important only to me and a few people who lived it, people with my last name. I tell it because there should be a record of my momma's sacrifice even if it means unleashing ghosts, because it is one of the few ways I can think of--beyond financing her new false teeth and making sure the rest of her life is without the deprivations of her past--to repay her for all the suffering and indignity she absorbed for us, for me. And I tell it because I can, because it is how I earn my paycheck, not at the New York Times, before at so many other places, telling stories. It is easy to tell a stranger's story; I didn't know if I had the guts to tell my own."
I know HD, that you don't like it when I make early predictions, but I am making one. This is going to be an excellent fucking book! The prologue was spectacular. It is a great story, and it is told well.
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