Sitting in a diner, they ask each other how they’re doing. Now, though, she and her brother have just said goodbye to their father, who died of liver cancer. While August’s brother had religion to cope with the absence of their mother, she had her friend group, which helped her navigate the transition from girlhood to womanhood. In those days, August’s father and brother focused on their devotion to the Nation of Islam while August invested herself in her friendships with Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi. August reflects on her early childhood: she thinks about how she and her brother grew up in Brooklyn without a mother, though she felt for a long time that this didn’t mean her mother was actually dead.
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