“Jerkins’s incisive social commentary shines through in her fiction debut Caul Baby Laced with generational pain and sprinkled with magic, Caul Baby is a sweeping family drama with no shortage of action. During a pandemic that has laid bare a nation’s inequities, Jerkins’s work feels more relevant than ever a blazingly original debut.”/5(). Book Summary. New York Times bestselling author Morgan Jerkins makes her fiction debut with this electrifying novel, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Jacqueline Woodson, that brings to life one powerful and enigmatic family in a tale rife with secrets, betrayal, intrigue, and magic. Laila desperately wants to become a mother, but each of her previous pregnancies has ended in heartbreak. · Caul Baby hones in on the power of a healing legend in a community systematically ignored and harmed by the medical establishment Jerkins’ debut novel asks what it means to be a mother and emphasizes that a community’s care for its own can be the most radical form of love.”.
By Morgan Jerkins. New York Times bestselling author Morgan Jerkins makes her fiction debut with this electrifying novel, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Jacqueline Woodson, that brings to life one powerful and enigmatic family in a tale rife with secrets, betrayal, intrigue, and magic. Laila desperately wants to become a mother, but each of. An Amazon Best Book of April Morgan Jerkins is a literary force. In her best-selling memoirs, This Will be My Undoing and Wandering in Strange Lands, she effectively laid bare what it means to be a Black American woman through personal essays and tracing her ancestor's roots (or lack thereof due to the Great Migration).In Caul Baby, her debut work of fiction, Jerkins weaves a story of. Morgan Jerkins' fantastic, expansive novel of mothers and daughters and Harlem, Caul Baby, is a meditation on the limits of inheritance and legacy. It's also a love letter to a rapidly changing neighborhood. Kaitlyn Greenidge.
Book Review – Caul Baby by Morgan Jerkins. Knowing Caul Baby was set in Harlem, I immediately thought the time period was the Harlem Renaissance. Then, I read the line “Uncle Ralph grew up in Providence and didn’t even know he was Black until he listened to Outkast for the first time!”. I thought Okay, we are in the So Fresh, So Clean era. “Jerkins’s incisive social commentary shines through in her fiction debut Caul Baby Laced with generational pain and sprinkled with magic, Caul Baby is a sweeping family drama with no shortage of action. During a pandemic that has laid bare a nation’s inequities, Jerkins’s work feels more relevant than ever a blazingly original debut.”. In Caul Baby, her debut work of fiction, Jerkins weaves a story of family and secrets, magic and loss, culminating in an unforgettable portrait of Black motherhood. While it’s easy to wax poetic about her command of language, it’s the narrative of this novel that will grip your mind and punch your heart, as two families reckon with the betrayals of the past and fight like mad to protect the ones they love.
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