Lewis uses a collection of photographs amassed by her grandmother to explore her family’s migration from New Orleans to Compton in Los Angeles County. She folds many voices and stories into this epic work, including the use of strategic erasure techniques on writing by a wide range of authors, from James Baldwin and Henry David Thoreau, excerpts from work by Turkish poet Yunus Emre, and a retelling of explorer Matthew Henson’s account of his journey to the North Pole. Throughout the volume, Lewis weaves a kind of epic narrative grounded in the everyday strength, beauty, and intelligence of the Black women she chronicles. ––Sarah Rosenthal