This Leaves Me Okay: Race, Legacy, and Letters From My Grandmother

"Lucille "Mama Ceal" Hatch Eldridge wrote her grandson Walter Pr yor weekly for nearly 30 years, from the time he was very small until she died at 80. What is most extraordinary is that she was not a well-educated person, having completed only the eight grade, and as a live in maid raising other people's children, she had little leisure time. Her letters, sprinkled throughout This Leaves Me Okay helped Pryor profoundly to feel he mattered. It shares a local's perspective of the lesser-known...