Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama Caribbean & Latin America Drawing on extensive interviews with

Drawing on extensive interviews with abolitionist crews all over North America

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Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama Caribbean & Latin America Drawing on extensive interviews withFrom a New Yorker staff writer and PEN award winner, a blend of memoir, history, and reportage on one of the most complex and least understood states in America. "In Alabama, we exist at the border of blessing and disaster." Alexis Okeowo grew up in Montgomery the former seat of the Confederacy as the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. Here, she weaves her family's story with Alabama's, defying stereotypes about her endlessly complex, often pigeonholed