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Circle Unbroken

Name: Circle Unbroken
ISBN: 9780312376031

Margot Theis Raven

Square Fish · Print & ebook · December 26, 2007

Reading lane: US: African American Stories

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US: African American Stories Multigenerational Families Historical Africa award

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At a Glance

Why This Clicks

What Hands Remember

A family story carried through generations, with basket-making and memory at its center.

Come here for

Sweetgrass basket-making entwined with family memory
A multigenerational thread reaching from Africa to America

Expect

A grandmother teaching her granddaughter, and stories passed between generations
Remembered skill alongside the history of enslavement

Book Details

Authors: Margot Theis Raven
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: December 26, 2007
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: US: African American Stories · Historical Africa
Reading lane: US: African American Stories

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Publisher Categories

US: African American Stories
Multigenerational Families
Values & Virtues

About This Book

As she teaches her granddaughter to sew a traditional sweetgrass basket, a grandmother weaves a story, going back generations to her grandfather's village in faraway Africa. There, as a boy, he learned to make baskets so tightly woven they could hold the rain. Even after being stolen away to a slave ship bound for America, he remembers what he learned and passes these memories on to his children - as they do theirs.