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How It Happens

By Jean Alicia Elster
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By Jean Alicia Elster
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Intergenerational story of three Black women and their struggle to stake their claim to the American dream.

How It Happens follows the story of author Jean Alicia Elster’s maternal grandmother, Dorothy May Jackson. Born in Tennessee in 1890, Dorothy May was the middle daughter of Addie Jackson, a married African-American housekeeper at one of the white boardinghouses in town, and Tom Mitchell, a commanding white attorney from a prominent family. Through three successive generations of Africa...

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Teens & YATeen FictionFamily & Relationships - Teen FictionMultigenerational families->Teen fiction