This Boy We Made Format:Paperback and the bright promise of

and the bright promise of freedom

lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular—its influence on pop culture

West African griots (men) and griottes (women) have recited the stories of their people

you see evidence that it’s not

they thought they'd made it

This Boy We Made Format:Paperback and the bright promise ofFinalist for the 2023 Southern Book Prize A Black mother bumps up against the limits of everything she thought she believedabout science and medicine, about motherhood, and about her faithin search of the truth about her son. One morning, Tophs, Taylor Harriss round cheeked, lively twenty two month old, wakes up listless, only lifting his head to gulp down water. She rushes Tophs to the doctor, ignoring the part of herself, trained by years of therapy