Matriarch (Signed Book) (Oprah's Book Club)
A remarkable family portrait beginning with one intrepid young girl and rippling out into the past and present. It's the story of motherhood, of growing up in a changing America, and of blazing the trail for more to come.
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • A 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 Knowles, the mot...






















