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Joan can’t change the past, but she can change her future. But she also sees their resilience and courage, how these extraordinary women fry green tomatoes and braid hair and sing all the while. But when the front door opens, she does remember her cousin Derek.Īs Joan learns more about her family’s past she discovers she’s not the only North woman to have experienced great hurt. She doesn’t remember the bustle of Beale Street or the smell of honeysuckle as she climbs the porch steps to her aunt’s house. Joan was only a child the last time she visited Memphis. Stringfellow’s debut novel Memphis (Dial Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House) is a multi-generational bildungsroman based on the author’s rich Civil Rights history. ‘Ferocious and compassionate’ Irish TimesįAMILY CAN HOLD YOU TOGETHER. Former attorney, Northwestern University MFA graduate, and Pushcart Prize nominee Tara M. Hazel, Miriam, August, and Joan are the bold and beautiful North women, and they each take a turn recounting the violence, injustice, abuse, and trauma that shape their lives. ‘A rhapsodic hymn to Black women’ New York Times Book Review Stringfellow’s debut novel traces the lives of four Black women from a Tennessee family. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION