by John Zenoni
‘Memphis’, by Tara M. Stringfellow, is a wonderful and engaging novel about three generations of very strong and hard-working Black women that hope and desire to change their futures and those of their children and family. The story tells different events that happen to each woman of their respective generations that change them all in some way. The cast of characters in this novel pulls you in and you root for these women in hopes that they will all be ok. There are some definite hard times experienced by these women as individuals but also as a family, not to mention as a culture. They go through marriage, divorce, rape and death (including by lynching) as well as national tragedies, such as the assassination of Dr. King and 9/11. The development of these characters is so well done and you get so into them as individuals that it's almost hard to see the novel come to an end. Very well done, indeed!
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