Gather Me
By Glory Edim
By Glory Edim
By Glory Edim
By Glory Edim
By Glory Edim
Read by Glory Edim
By Glory Edim
Read by Glory Edim
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$28.00
Oct 29, 2024 | ISBN 9780525619796
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Oct 29, 2024 | ISBN 9780525619802
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Oct 29, 2024 | ISBN 9780593614877
540 Minutes
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Praise
“With candor and tenderness, Glory Edim gathers us as if welcoming us to her porch, or stoop, or kitchen table and in this sacred space she whispers her poignant testimony revealing to us her scars as proof that words—written and spoken—enlighten, restore, heal. This ode to Black scribes is a resting place, a balm.”—Renée Watson, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“Glory Edim’s Gather Me is a moving memoir and a powerful testament to Black literature’s capacity to heal, guide, and help us become the best women, mothers, lovers, and daughters we can be and offer ourselves grace in the journey of becoming. Readers will benefit from Glory’s clear-eyed witness to the struggles and triumphs of her life and her rendering of the wreckage and refuge that family and love provide.”—Naomi Jackson, author of The Star Side of Bird Hill
“Gather Me is a full and beautiful portrait of a full life that has been buoyed by an expansive, and ever-growing love for words, and for language. What a gift, to have that love reflected outwards.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always This Year
“Glory Edim’s memoir in praise is more than just a legend of storytellers to study. Gather Me is a gorgeous guide to a life full of empathy and healing through narratives and world-building, reflecting the voices often lost in the margins. Jordan, Morrison, Hurston, and Walker are just some of the lyrical wind workers that have saved Edim in her stunning revelation of what it is like to be a Black daughter, becoming a Black woman, who will birth a Black son. It revs with a deep inquiry into mental health, self-love, and communal care. Edim has written a profound testimony of how to re-emerge and soar in the wake of life’s storm.”—Mahogany L. Browne, author of Chrome Valley
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