Ordinary Notes American History a photograph kept hidden for

a photograph kept hidden for many years

its boundless human energy and its stifling greed and violence

A plot twist they didn't see coming

It's a Southern cookbook like you've never seen before

Then acts of unspeakable cruelty kept them separated

Ordinary Notes American History a photograph kept hidden forFinalist for The National Book Critics Circle Awards in Nonfiction Finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction Winner of the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times, NPR, New York Magazine, Kirkus, the New Yorker, Granta, The Atlantic, Publisher's Weekly, and Barnes and Noble. Critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, "Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends