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03315aam a2200397 i 4500 001 6D0EF0521BC211EE8D6367BB4CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230706010030 008 230520s2023 nyu e b 000 0ceng 010 $a 2022026401 020 $a 0593443721 020 $a 9780593443729 035 $a (OCoLC)1379316746 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c CZA $d CZA $d LE# $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Alvis-Walker, Marcie, $e author. 240 10 $a Essays. $k Selections 245 10 $a Everybody come alive : $b a memoir in essays / $c Marcie Alvis-Walker, creator of Black coffee with white friends. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Convergent, $c [2023] 300 $a viii, 267 pages ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-267). 520 $a "Dazzling essays on faith, family and being a Black woman in America that explore what we do with the legacies we inherit, the faith that shapes our responses, and how we rebuild our stories for those who come after us--from the author of the popular blog Black Coffee with White Friends. On her blog, Marcie Alvis-Walker creates spaces for conversations about cultural norms, race, faith, and womanhood that encourage readers to unburden themselves from misconceptions they've inherited about the nature of God and their own identities. Now, in Everybody Come Alive, a deeply intimate and illuminating collection of lyrical essays written largely for a Black audience, Alvis-Walker invites readers into stories and personal histories from her own life. She tells candidly of her experience as a curious daughter raised under the watchful eye of the matriarchs who came before her. Readers are transported into stories of family, loyalty, and ambition; of assimilation, self-preservation, and risk; of creativity and the exercise of freedom. These essays reveal a journey of both inheritance and creation-a grappling of the things we are given, the things we must carry, and the ways we co-create life anew for ourselves and our communities. "Let us rejoice let us rejoice let us rejoice," Alvis-Walker writes. "On the bad days when no one speaks for us let us rejoice. On the long days when all seems to speak against us let us rejoice, and on the empty days when no one can see us let us rejoice let us rejoice let." Alvis-Walker's unforgettable writing challenges readers to hold the contradictions that become inevitable and essential to every moment we encounter-moments that ultimately comprise the whole of our lives"-- $c Provided by publisher. 700 12 $a Alvis-Walker, Marcie. $t Roots. 700 12 $a Alvis-Walker, Marcie. $t Shiny baubles and trinkets and stones. 700 12 $a Alvis-Walker, Marcie. $t Gale force winds. 700 12 $a Alvis-Walker, Marcie. $t White lion takes her coffee black. 700 12 $a Alvis-Walker, Marcie. $t Stuff I'm made of. 700 12 $a Alvis-Walker, Marcie. $t Very dark, very beautiful. 700 12 $a Alvis-Walker, Marcie. $t Black mammy beauty. 700 12 $a Alvis-Walker, Marcie. $t Black single mothers are made of stardust. 700 12 $a Alvis-Walker, Marcie. $t Beautiful. 700 12 $a Alvis-Walker, Marcie. $t Well-done. 941 $a 1 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230706010611.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6D0EF0521BC211EE8D6367BB4CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search