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The Flower Bearers
A Memoir
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The Flower Bearers is a memoir in which Rachel Eliza Griffiths processes the death of her close friend Moon on her wedding day to Salman Rushdie, followed by a brutal attack on her husband.
She mourns the woman she was before these events while rebuilding her life, weaving stories of her seventeen-year friendship with Moon—forged at Sarah Lawrence College amid shared literary influences like Lucille Clifton and Toni Morrison—and the enduring devotion in her marriage.
The book explores the beauty and pain of fully opening oneself to love and friendship as a Black woman, poet, and artist.
She mourns the woman she was before these events while rebuilding her life, weaving stories of her seventeen-year friendship with Moon—forged at Sarah Lawrence College amid shared literary influences like Lucille Clifton and Toni Morrison—and the enduring devotion in her marriage.
The book explores the beauty and pain of fully opening oneself to love and friendship as a Black woman, poet, and artist.
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