Citizen: An American Lyric Cover:Paperback So when the elder calls

So when the elder calls out of the blue with an urgent request for Nikki to visit her in the hills of western North Carolina

determined black women as they battle injustice to unite their family and forge success on their own terms

Mia McKenna has always found comfort in the darkness

and expectations

shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end

Citizen: An American Lyric Cover:Paperback So when the elder calls* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry * * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L. A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Slate, Time Out New York,