Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays by Marcie Alvis Walker, Marcie Alvis Walker

Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays
Marcie Alvis Walker, Marcie Alvis Walker
Page: 288
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9780593443729
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
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Notes From Your Bookseller This beautiful memoir in essays from the creator of Black Coffee With White Friends is remarkably moving. It will encourage you to embrace who you are and where you have come from, even when that means embracing pain. We recommend it for fans of Cole Arthur Riley's This Here Flesh. A dazzling memoir that explores what it means to become fully alive and holy when we embrace the silenced stories we’ve inherited—from the creator of Black Coffee with White Friends.

“Marcie Alvis Walker writes with an honesty that is both dauntless and compassionate.”—Cole Arthur Riley, author of This Here Flesh

In her debut book, Everybody Come Alive, Marcie Alvis Walker invites readers into a deeply intimate and illuminating memoir comprising lyrical essays and remembrances of being a curious child of the seventies and eighties, raised under the critical and watchful eye of Jim Crow matriarchs who struggled to integrate their lives and remain whole.

While swimming in rivers of racial trauma and racial reckoning, Alvis Walker explores her earliest memories—of abandonment and erasure, of her mother’s mental illness and incarceration, and of her ongoing struggles with perfectionism and body dysmorphia—in hopes of leaving a healed and whole legacy for her own child. Nostalgic but unflinching, candid yet tender, Everybody Come Alive is an invitation to be vulnerable along with the author as she unravels all the beauty and terror of God, race, and gender’s imprint on her life.

This is a coming-of-age journey touching on the bittersweet pain and joy of what it takes to become a person who embraces being Black, a woman, and holy in America. Alvis Walker’s unforgettable writing challenges readers to not only see and hold her story as being fully human, but also to see and hold their own stories too.

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