Now available in a paperback edition, LaToya Ruby Frazier s award-winning first book, The Notion of Family, offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of racism and economic decline in America s small towns, as embodied by her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania.
The work also considers the impact of that decline on the community and on her family, creating a statement both personal and truly political an intervention in the histories and narratives of the region. Frazier has compellingly set her story of three generations her Grandma Ruby, her mother, and herself against larger...