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Matriarch: A Memoir General Fiction For more than three decadesA revealing personal life story like no otherenlightening, entertaining, surprising, empoweringand a testament to the world making power of Black motherhood You are Celestine, she said. She squatted to push the hair off my face and pull leaves off my pajama legs. Like my sister and my grandmother. And there, under the pecan tree, as she did countless times, that day my mother told me stories of the mothers and daughters that went before me. Tina