Joy Takes Root

Joy Takes RootIn her grandmother's garden, a young Black girl learns about mindfulness and herbal medicine in this soothing intergenerational story about our connection to nature. It's Joy's first summer in her grandmother's South Carolina gardena rite of passage. In the midst of okra, spinach, and strawberries, Grammy teaches Joy that plants are friends with many uses. Herbs, for example, can be turned into medicine. There in Grammy's abundant backyard, Joy learns

as well as at Fort Donelson and Fort Henry

Without realizing

Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe

successful young black women―is your guide to getting to your next level life

terrorizing the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life

This is life on the streets of a big segregated city-the South side of Chicago

vernacular photography

privileged light-skinned black man struggling with his mixed descent

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1496735951

“Sometimes you have to give people a taste of their own medicine

New York Times best-selling author Morgan Jerkins makes her fiction debut with this electrifying novel

Published: 2024-06-18