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let our stories be told, even those written in tears on ripped and raggedy paper

let our stories be told, even those written in tears on ripped and raggedy paper •

We are the light carriers, the psalmists, the scribes, the poets and the gatekeepers for this generation.

Written in the transformative wake of 2020, in the heart of unprecedented spiritual and political unrest, Disturbing the Peace: Let our stories be told even those written in tears on ripped and raggedy paper testifies on behalf of Black American women who are brave enough to survive their layered tribulations of grief in the frayed, golden journey towards healing, self-discovery, and faith.

In this vulnerable debut collection of memoir-essays, They Call Her Lydia beckons forth the buried voices of a multitude, unsilenced, at last.

– They Call Her Lydia