High Cotton

FINALIST -- 2021 Georgia Author of the Year Award for Memoir "Johnson's moving work offers a welcome sense of solidarity and commonality to its readers." -Publishers Weekly Kristie Robin Johnson has lived nearly her whole life in small town Georgia, as did five generations of African American women before her beginning with a slave, her oldest known ancestor. In High Cotton, Johnson explores the social and economic consequences of her lineage, drawing on pivotal moments from her own experience t