This Leaves Me Okay: Race, Legacy, and Letters From My Grandmother -- Walter Pryor, Hardcover

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This Leaves Me Okay: Race, Legacy, and Letters From My Grandmother -- Walter Pryor, HardcoverLucille "Mama Ceal" Hatch Eldridge wrote to her grandson Walter Pryor weekly for nearly 30 years, from his boyhood until she died at 80. Most extraordinarily, Mama Ceal was not a well educated person, having completed only the eighth grade. As a live in maid, raising other people's children, she had little leisure time to write. Yet, her letters, sprinkled throughout This Leaves Me Okay (Heliotrope Books, May 2025), helped Pryor profoundly to feel he

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