CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION Lorraine’s Time

CHAPTER ONE Migration Song

CHAPTER TWO From Heartland to the Water’s Edge

CHAPTER THREE The Girl Who Can Do Everything

CHAPTER FOUR Bobby

CHAPTER FIVE Sappho’s Poetry

CHAPTER SIX Raisin

CHAPTER SEVEN The Trinity

CHAPTER EIGHT Of the Faith of Our Fathers

CHAPTER NINE American Radical

CHAPTER TEN The View from Chitterling Heights

CHAPTER ELEVEN Homegoing

CONCLUSION Retracing, May 2017

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS