Thursday, January 19, 2017

FADE TO GRAY

Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming (New York: Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin, 2014) ("My mother tells me this as we fold laundry, white towels separated from the colored ones. Each a threat to the other and I remember the time I spilled bleach on a blue towel, dotting it forever. The pale pink towel, a memory of when it was washed with a red one. Maybe there is something, after all, to the way some people want to remain--each  to its own kind. But in time maybe everything will fade to gray." Id at 293.).

Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn: A Novel (New York: Amistad, 2016).