… an intergenerational memoir of Shonda Buchanan’s immense extended family of many diversities, loaded with the slippery complexities of myriad ethnic experiences. A woman-centered handing down of experiences and knowledge from mother to daughter, from aunt to niece, the story is as heartbreaking and sorrowful as it is gleeful and empowering … a story remembered and shared, shedding featherlight on the continuity of a family through times of historical trauma and the bludgeoning of identities and human dignity … With a writing style that moves with ease in and out of the poetic, the no-nonsense, the tragic and a kind of endurance that is earthily and spiritually human, Black Indian is a read both intriguing and satisfying.
