Cassandra Jackson, THE WRECK: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews English professor and author Cassandra Jackson about The Wreck, a luminous, lyrical, anguished, and wise memoir about her quest to understand a family secret–a car crash that killed her father’s mother, sister, sister-in-law, niece, and first wife before she was born. Cassandra describes what her childhood was like, not knowing what had happened, and then explains how, years later, she put the tragedy together, piece by piece. She was shocked by how little she really knew about race and segregation in America – from colored ambulances to segregated obituaries. She also talks about her journey with infertility and the appalling, inhumane way she was treated by medical professionals.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:06.7 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
| 0:14.9 | I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir. |
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| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop |
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| 0:47.9 | our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018. |
| 0:56.5 | And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy it. Cassandra Jackson is the author of The Rec, a daughter's |
| 1:06.7 | memoir of becoming a mother. Cassandra is a professor of English at the College of New Jersey, |
| 1:12.0 | where she teaches classes about African-American literature and visual culture. She is co-author |
| 1:17.4 | of the Tony Morrison Book Club and has also published two books on race in U.S. literature |
| 1:22.1 | and art, and she has written about racial oppression in everyday life in Huff Post and the |
| 1:26.7 | Washington Post. |
| 1:29.9 | She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children. |
| 1:31.5 | Welcome, Cassandra. |
| 1:37.8 | Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss the wreck, a daughter's memoir of becoming a mother. |
| 1:39.4 | Thank you for having me. |
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