Margo Jefferson: Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir [2022] paperback Condition:New Zuzana Ruzickova grew up in

Zuzana Ruzickova grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian Bach and the piano

Why do layers of mythology build up around particular features in the landscape

she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance

And who do they talk to about these feelings when there's not even any internet around

helping the reader to fill in the gaps and put each story into the context of the rest of his father's writings

Margo Jefferson: Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir [2022] paperback Condition:New Zuzana Ruzickova grew up inTaking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be as incarnated by trailblazing Black dancers and athletes Harriet Beecher Stowe's Topsy reimagined in the artworks of Kara Walker, white supremacy in the novels of Willa Cather, and more, this breathtakingly eloquent account is both a critique and a vindication of the constructed self.