Book Club Replay: GO BACK AND GET IT with Dionne Ford

In May, Dionne Ford joined our book club to talk about her luminous and forthright memoir Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing. We talked about her writing process, finding the photo that started her quest through the annals of historical archives and genealogical records to find her ancestors, and the many research detours she took along the way. I especially loved hearing her talk about her experiences in Mississippi, including that she was able to bring her father, who was born here, back to Mississippi for the first time since leaving the state as a child. Also, Dionne will be at the Mississippi Book Festival on September 14 in Jackson! I hope you can come out to hear her talk about the book in person. I’ll be there!You can now listen to these recordings on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Subscribe to the show in your app to get notifications when new episodes are released. Note: This was my first time using Streamyard, and I’m sorry to say that there were technical difficulties on my end that cause my video to freeze throughout the recording. Fortunately, the audio worked throughout and Dionne’s video is great!If you want to go the extra mile, leave Go Back and Get it a five star review on Goodreads and Amazon (even if you didn’t buy the book on Amazon), share a picture of the book to your social media, or recommend it to a friend. These small actions can make a big difference to the authors whose books mean so much to us.Thank you, Dionne! And thanks again to our partners: Mississippi Book Festival, Lemuria Books, and Friendly City Books. Thank you to the team at Red Squared for recording our production at their studio in The Hangar. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rooted.substack.com/subscribe