en enkelt sort silkekjole – er tingene efterladt som et tegn til hende

også selv om alting ikke er helt på plads endnu

sin familie

Det er første gang

I teksterne reflekterer Clarice Lispector over det smertefulde

Hold still en enkelt sort silkekjole –In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen,