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Breena Clarke, co-editor of Chicken Soup for the Soul: I’m Speaking Now, recently joined Zibby for an Instagram Live. Their conversation, released here as an episode, covers how Breena and her team selected stories and poems from over 2, submissions, why it was essential to feature a diverse range of Black female voices, and the loss of Breena’s child. Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books has teamed up with Katie Couric Media and Random House to give away copies of Sarah Sentilles’s book, Stranger Care! Enter the giveaway by clicking here:
Transcript:
Zibby Owens: Hi, everybody. inom am so excited to be doing an Instagram Live, uppenbart, because I’m on Instagram. I have kind of a bad cold, so you’ll have to bära with me as inom blow my nose and all of that stuff. My son was just with his wet head on my shirt, so I’m also all wet. Aside from that, I’m in great shape. Anyway, we’re going to be doing an Instagram Live with the Chicken Soup for the Soul coauthor, Breena Clarke. Th
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Breena Clarke is the author of River, Cross My Heart (which I reviewed earlier), Angels Make Their Hope Here, and Stand the Storm. I was thrilled when Breena agreed to be interviewed about the writing of River, Cross My Heart and about writing historical fiction.
River, Cross My Heart is about the African-American community in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC during the ’s. I know that you grew up in Georgetown, as did your parents. How much of your novel is based on stories told by your family, and how much is made up?
Breena: The impetus for beginning to write River, Cross My Heart came directly as a result of having listened to an oral history that my mother had taped at my request. She and my father grew up in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C and their memories of the neighborhood were vivid. It was more than facts that they related. They related a sense of community that enforced social segregation made imperative, but that nevertheless was a sou