Henrietta Duterte<\/a>, a Black abolitionist in Philadelphia who used her funeral home to help people escape.<\/p>\nGreenidge also drew on her own family history, and her experience of being a new mother. Her daughter, Mavis, was born days after she finished a second draft of the book, and is now 18 months old. She finished revisions while living in a multigenerational household with her own mother and sisters.<\/p>\n
\u201cMother-daughter relationships are like the central relationships in my life,\u201d she said. \u201cOne of the things I was interested in was motherhood as this place of self-creation.\u201d<\/p>\n
She took inspiration from Toni Morrison, who once described motherhood as \u201cthe most liberating thing that ever happened to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
That idea, of motherhood as a catalyst for self-discovery, became a refrain toward the end of the novel, when Libertie reads a letter from her mother. \u201cI cannot think of a greater freedom than raising you,\u201d it says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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