The Body Family

Hope Wabuke weaves together a coming-of-age narrative of a Black girl, the child of immigrants fleeing from genocidal terror to America. The Body Family is a song of memory and revelation; it is the sublime unearthing of what has been hidden by silence and erasure. This lyrical and imagistic poetry collection tells the story of a family’s journey to flee the murderous reign of Uganda’s Idi Amin only to land in a racist American landscape. Wabuke excavates personal and ancestral history to bring these poems to wrenching life, articulating what it means to be a Black girl becoming a Black woman while navigating a diaspora haunted by British colonization and American enslavement.

• | Author: Hope Wabuke
• | Publisher: Haymarket Books
• | Publication Date: Apr 12, 2022
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781642596977
• | ISBN-10: 1642596973