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“Straight’s memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emphasis on the women’s stories . . . The aftereffect of all these disparate stories juxtaposed in a single epic is remarkable. Its resonance lingers for days after reading.” —San Francisco Chronicle
In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self–proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Straight met her teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write. Once back in Riverside, at driveway barbecues and fish fries with the large, close–knit Sims family, Straight—and eventually her three daughters—heard for decades the stories of Dwayne’s female ancestors. Some women escaped violence in post–slavery Tennessee, some escaped murder in Jim Crow Mississippi, and some fled abusive men. Straight’s mother–in–law, Alberta Sims, is the descendant at the heart of this memoir. Susan’s family, too, reflects the hardship and resilience of women pushing onward—from Switzerland, Canada, and the Colorado Rockies to California.
A Pakistani word, biraderi, is one Straight uses to define a complex system of kinship and clan—those who become your family. An entire community helped raise her daughters. Of her three girls, now grown and working in museums and the entertainment industry, Straight writes, “The daughters of our ancestors carry in their blood at least three continents. We are not about borders. We are about love and survival.”
“Certain books give off the sense that you won’t want them to end, so splendid the writing, so lyrical the stories. Such is the case with Southern California novelist Susan Straight’s new memoir, In the Country of Women . . . Her vibrant pages are filled with people of churned–together blood culled from scattered immigrants and native peoples, indomitable women and their babies. Yet they never succumb . . . Straight gives us permission to remember what went before with passion and attachment.” ––Los Angeles Times
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Book Title: In the Country of Women: A Memoir
Book Author: Susan Straight
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- ASIN : B07LFRY96Y
- Publisher : Catapult (August 6, 2019)
- Publication date : August 6, 2019
- Language : English
- File size : 22584 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 382 pages
- Lending : Not Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #94,445 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #18 in History of U.S. Immigration
- #20 in Emigration & Immigration
- #33 in History of Western U.S.
- Customer Reviews: 4.4 out of 5 stars 308 ratings
Book Review
Name: S. Kay MurphyRating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Raw, tender, sweet, fierce, perfect
Date: Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2019
Review: I love the novels of Susan Straight, and when this memoir was released, I assumed I would devour it quickly. I didn't. The writing is so rich and pure, I found myself stopping often to re-read a sentence or a paragraph. I called friends to read them sections aloud. Sometimes, I stopped to reminisce; I spent my teen years in Riverside also. Sometimes I stopped to wipe tears away; my sons are biracial. We, too, had those painful but necessary conversations about when--not if--they would get pulled over. And they did. Thank goodness they returned home alive to tell the tale. How many times have they heard, "You fit the description..."? I've lost count. It never stops breaking my heart.
Susan Straight belongs in that esteemed group of women writers--Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Barbara Kingsolver, Louise Erdrich and others--who have had the courage to write both critically and lovingly of this country and a woman's place in it, keeping always in the forefront of their work the truth that the struggle is always far more difficult for women who have been disenfranchised by poverty, race, or status. This is my tribe. These were my beginnings. And every word of their work resonates with me.
In the Country of Women is a book for those who know what it means to be held back or pushed down. This is a book about women who have struggled out of the grasp of those who attempt to hold them back, who have kept moving forward, women who have gotten up repeatedly after being pushed down, women who have clenched their fists and said, "I'm still here. I still matter."
This is the best book I've read this year. Kudos to Susan Straight.
Name: Lynne M. Spreen
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Rich Truth Telling
Date: Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2019
Review: This is such a fullsome book, I feel inadequate to review it. Instead, I'll react to it. First of all, it's not a memoir in the classic sense. It doesn't read like a novel, moving somewhat sequentially through time, or even sequentially with flashbacks. Chapters go from descriptions of present day life to retrospectives on Susan's past and the rearing of her daughters, to fact-packed chapters on her ancestors and those of her husband, straight out of Ancestry.com. All of this is beautifully drawn, compelling. Straight is a master of understated but rich description.
What is the theme? What is her point? Primarily, as she says in the beginning, it's to establish a record, a narrative, for her beloved daughters. Straight is a devoted mother, very inspiring. She writes of strong women, women whose heroism might otherwise be lost to history. Women whose blood runs in the veins of her daughters. In the prologue, Straight addresses her three girls, telling them:
"They never tell us about the odysseys of women...Women don't get the Heroine's Journey. Men are accorded the road and the sea and the asphalt...they get Joseph Campbell...They get The Iliad and The Odyssey...they get 'the epic novel,' 'the great American story,' and Ken Burns documentaries. But our women fought harder than men--they fought men! Men who claimed to love them, to protect them, to help them--men who trapped and tried to kill them...They survived passages that would have made a lot of men quit...These women had to travel to new worlds...because the old world was trying to kill them, starve them, or bury them alive."
Well, you know right there I was hooked.
As a native Californian and Riversider from age 11, I loved Straight's heartfelt descriptions of our baked brown hills and dry riverbeds and pepper trees and the Santa Ana winds. I admired how she described the rich family ties of her husband's people, the Sims, seemingly in contrast to her own starved and paltry upbringing (her mother is a work of art). Until she visits her extended family in Switzerland, and then we see another theme emerge: big families who love you are the same everywhere, and if you're a part of one you should treasure it.
She writes of the hardships (the word is too soft) of her ancestors and those of her husband, Dwayne Sims. Each vignette, each ancestral clue, is interesting, and as a genealogy project, no doubt priceless, but to be honest, after a while I became confused about who was who. (In my own ancestry, all the women are named Elizabeth, it seems, and all the men are Frank or John, so it's just as confusing.) Eventually I stopped trying to follow the family threads and just enjoy the telling.
Probably the most important part of this book to a person living in the US is the horrific truth of the racism still powerfully alive in our country. As a white woman living her whole adult life in an economically depressed community of color, Straight's in a perfect position to report out. And the heartbreaking truth is that our children, our men, WE, are not safe. We--and I say this in solidarity--are subject to being killed while skateboarding, returning home from soccer practice, driving to the beach...What she has learned about keeping her family alive will wreck you or resonate, depending on your own everyday reality. I was sickened to read this validation of the reality I see in the news every day: nothing has changed in the last 50 years. There were places here that I wanted to skim, it was so painful to read. But I didn't, because this is a book about knowing the truth, being real, and staying strong. Appreciating your family, no matter what blood runs through their veins. Protecting, loving, and taking care of each other. Humanity, with all the good and bad of it.
A beautiful memoir, highly recommended.
Name: N. Charest
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Shocked that I didn’t like this book
Date: Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2020
Review: So usually I like Susan Straight and memoirs but I didn’t like this book. I can’t help but say this: I had the realization that Ms Straight has built her entire career on the backs of slaves and their descendants. Weird POV, I know but I couldn’t get past her use of her husband’s relatives to say...something...about Riverside and growing up there. I would have liked her to expand her theme about women defining their journeys by their relationships with men. I liked her mileage calculations at the end of some chapters. Basically I feel like this book was sloppily cobbled together and lacks depth. I didn’t particularly like it, but I thank her for writing it.
Name: LimaBN
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Classic - a great book about our country, our culture, and our history
Date: Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2020
Review: From the seldom-published perspective of a White woman who has married a Black man, the story of what it's like to be the focal point of this merger of two vivid cultures while raising children together. Well written, actively voiced and paced, it's also easy to read. The chapters are cogent and focused, so it's an easy book to read for a bit and then get back to, because the story lines do not require a complete recollection of all that has gone before. Highly recommended both as a read and as a gift to any friends, associates, clients, or just someone you've met somehow.
Nothing in there that's nsfw, lots that's thought provoking without attacking anyone's perspectives. I don't give 5 stars very often, but this one deserves 6.
Name: Toby Neal
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Thought provoking inside look into a family's migration
Date: Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2019
Review: Enjoyed this memoir by literary luminary Susan Straight as she writes about the generations of women whose blood combined to create her three biracial daughters in Riverside, California...A place people go to begin again. Many thought-provoking moments in this carefully researched book spanning the migration of women across the whole United States. In a way, In the Country of Women: A Memoir is a universal story We all came from somewhere and ended up somewhere.
Susan just cared enough to write that story of her family in an engaging tapestry that enriches the rest of us, too.