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Love, Rita by Bridgett M. Davis | BGC Book Club

A conversation with the brilliant Bridgett M. Davis about her newly released memoir, Love, Rita. . In Love, Rita, Bridgett M. Davis tells the story of her beloved older sister Rita, who knew Bridgett before she knew herself. Four years apart, as the two sisters grew into young adulthood, they left behind their childhood rivalry and became best friends. Rita was a vivacious woman who attended Fisk University at age sixteen, and went on to become a car test driver, an amateur belly dancer, an MBA, and later a popular special ed teacher; in doing so, she modeled for her younger sister Bridgett how to live boldly. In the face of family tragedy, the two sisters leaned on each other to heal; their closeness grew until Rita’s life was cut short by lupus when she was forty-four. This led Bridgett to ask the simple, heartbreaking question: Why Rita? Love, Rita is a brave and beautiful homage that celebrates the special, complex bond of sisterhood and reveals what it is to live and die as a Black woman in America. This moving memoir, full of joy and heartbreak and family history alongside American history, uses Rita’s life as a lens to examine the persistent effects of racism in the lives of Black women and the men they love. This poignant, deeply resonant portrait of an unforgettable woman and her impact on those she left behind is essential reading. . About the Author: Bridgett M. Davis is the author of the memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life In The Detroit Numbers, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, named a Best Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews, and featured as a clue on Jeopardy! She is author of two novels, Into the Go-Slow, and Shifting Through Neutral. Davis is also writer/director of the award-winning film Naked Acts, which was recently re-released to critical acclaim. She is Professor Emerita at Baruch College (CUNY) and the Graduate Center, where she taught creative, narrative, and film writing. A Spelman College and Columbia Journalism School graduate, she lives in Brooklyn with her family. Here's the link to our conversation about The World According to Fannie Davis:   / 15g4jqmgux