My Soul Looks Back
A Memoir
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March 27, 2017
Author and educator Harris begins her memoir with her young adult life in New York during the early 1970s and the remarkable individuals who surrounded her, including notable black writers such as James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, and Toni Morrison. Harris is an accomplished woman as well, an award-winning culinary writer who has been inducted into the James Beard Who’s Who in Food and Beverage in America and recently helped the National Museum of African American History and Culture to conceptualize its cafeteria. Though Harris’s narrative begins in Manhattan, the boundaries of the story expand to include the south of France, Paris, California wine country, and Haiti. One point of focus is the author’s romantic relationship with Sam Floyd, an older fellow professor at Queens College, who first introduced her to the various artists he fraternized with. Harris has thoughtfully sprinkled in a few of her favorite recipes as well as a playlist: “from the dancing tunes of our raucous parties to the wailing notes of my grief, there was always music.” This is a lively, entertaining, and informative recounting of a time and place that shaped and greatly enriched American culture.
Food scholar and writer Jessica B. Harris performs this memoir of her early adult years in New York City in the 1970s. Her romance with Sam Floyd connected her to the black cultural and intellectual elite of the time--people like James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, and Toni Morrison--who influenced her perspective and career. Harris gives an unflashy but precise performance full of intelligence and warmth, belying her modest and self-deprecating assertions about her role in this scene. As much as this audiobook is about a life, it's more about a place and time, and Harris's vivid descriptions, in writing and delivery, demonstrate how the flourishing cultural milieu encouraged her to thrive. Fans of food writing, memoirs, and cultural history will enjoy this production. A.F. � AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
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