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Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South

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Summer Snow is a cornucopia of riches about a landscape steeped in traditions and customs that evoke pride and terror, praisesong and dirges. Harris is funny, provocative, frank, and incisive as she ruminates on family, community, education, racism, religion, hair and the mannerisms that inform the black and white people who intersect on these social and cultural plains. Her essays are steeped in a wisdom that has accrued through a joyful life. The summer snow of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, as depicted by Trudier Harris, is a cultural phenomenon that is quintessentially American for any reader growing up in the South--and I use Malcolm X's geographical construct, south of Canada.