02166cam a2200349 i 4500 2600585882 TxAuBib 20251112120000.0 250320s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024042047 9780593536087 hardcover 30.00 0593536088 hardcover 30.00 (OCoLC)1482059075 TxAuBib rda Bonét, Sasha, author. The waterbearers [BOOK] : a memoir of mothers and daughters / Sasha Bonét. Water bearers. First hardcover edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. ©2025. xiii, 291 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Sasha 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. When 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.". 20251112. Women, Black Biography. African American single mothers Biography. Single mothers Biography. Biographies. Autobiographies.