Waterbaby

In her astounding third collection, Nikki Wallschlaeger turns to water-the natural element of grief-to trace history's interconnected movements through family, memory, and day-to-day survival. Waterbaby is about Blackness, language, and motherhood in America; about the ancestral joys and sharp pains that travel together through the nervous system's crowded riverways; about the holy sanctuary of the bathtub for a spirit that's pushed beyond exhaustion. Waterbaby sings the blues in every key,...