Matriarch: A Memoir 4th Order Our collective agony doesn't just

Our collective agony doesn't just affect African Americans

Rick shares deeply personal recipes as he re-creates the dishes and specialties he tasted throughout his journey

and a 2019 MacArthur fellowship

What emerges is a poignant personal narrative

Matriarch: A Memoir 4th Order Our collective agony doesn't justA revealing personal life story like no other enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering and a testament to the world making power of Black motherhood "You are Celestine," she said. She squatted to push the hair off my face and pull leaves off my pajama legs. "Like my sister and my grandmother." And there, under the pecan tree, as she did countless times, that day my mother told me stories of the mothers and daughters that went before me. Tina