The imagination of a girl, the retelling of family stories, and the unfolding of a rich and often painful history: Parneshia Jones debut collection explores the intersections of these elements of experience with refreshing candor and metaphorical purpose. A child of the South speaking in the rhythms of Chicago, Jones knits a human quilt with herself at the center. She relates everything from the awkward trip to Marshall Fields with her mother to buy her first bra to the late whiskey-infused nights of her father s world. In the South, lard sizzles a sermon from the stove; in Chicago, we feast...