Tuesday Intro/Teaser

First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea every Tuesday. To participate share the opening paragraph or two of a book you've decided to read based on that paragraph. Please feel free to join in, First Chapter~First Paragraph~Tuesday Intros.

"Vivien Walker Moise
Indian Mound, Mississippi
April 2013

I was born in the same bed that my mama was born in, and her mama before her, and even further back than anybody alive could still remember. IT was if the back wood of the bedposts were meant to root us Walker women to this place of flat fields and fertile soil carved from the great Mississippi. But like the levees built to control the mighty river, it never held us long. We were born screaming into this world, the beginning of a lifelong quest to find what would quiet us."

A Long Time Gone  by Karen Walker

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of  Should Be Reading.

I had a trunk's worth of hurts piled in the car with me that only my grandmother Bootsie could make go away. She would forgive those long years of silence because she understood doggedness.