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Published: Dec. 9, 2021, 6 a.m.

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When Cassandra Lane finds herself pregnant at thirty-five, the knowledge sends her on a poignant exploration of memory to prepare for her entry into motherhood. She moves between the twentieth-century rural South and present-day Los Angeles, reimagining the intimate life of her great-grandparents Mary Magdelene Magee and Burt Bridges, and Burt\\u2019s lynching at the hands of vengeful white men in his southern town.  

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We Are Bridges turns to creative nonfiction to reclaim a family history from violent erasure so that a mother can gift her child with an ancestral blueprint for their future. Haunting and poetic, this debut traces the strange fruit borne from the roots of personal loss in one Black family\\u2014and considers how to take back one\\u2019s American story. Listen in for a wonderful conversation about race, writing, and what we can do to resurrect the memory of our ancestors. 

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Connect: Website: cassandralane.net @casslanewrites on Twitter, @cassandra.lane71 on Instagram, @cassandralaneauthor on Facebook

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NPR Review: In \'We Are Bridges,\' A Writer Resurrects Her Great Grandfather\'s Memory

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Original theme music "Mysterious Goings On" by Jamie Green.

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This episode of the Mysterious Goings On Podcast was recorded and mixed at Green Shebeen Studios in beautiful Kansas City, Missouri. Copyright 2021, all rights reserved. No reproduction, excerpting, or other use without written permission.

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