That Part Of My Face: Short Stories — Penny Mickelbury

They are young, and not so young. They live in big cities and in small towns. They work hard at hard jobs, and are retired from working hard jobs. They have lived lives from which they derived strength and joy, and they have lived lives completely devoid of joy or humor. Ugly government secrets, Freedom Riders and the Civil Rights Movement, 9/11, Black Lives Matter--different stories of different lives that have share one important common denominator: They are some stories of the lives of some Black women.