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The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters

By Sasha Bonét
Narrated by: Sasha Bonét
Unabridged — 9 hours, 39 minutes
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By Sasha Bonét
Narrated by: Sasha Bonét
Unabridged — 9 hours, 39 minutes
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• One of NPR's “Nonfiction Books We Love from 2025” • One of Kirkus's “Best Nonfiction Books of 2025” •

A powerful new voice, telling the American story through three generations of Black mothers.

"This searing, poetic memoir covers generations of powerful Black women who raise their children singly and transmit strength by showing up. . . . Bonét writes her own mothering story with brute honesty."-NPR

"[A] profound story about all Black women, and about the effects of racism in all Black...