Translation in Motion

Description

This is a book about memory—how it lives in the body, in the kitchen, in the classroom, and in the quiet moments that shape us long before we understand their meaning.

Blending poetry, short stories, essays, and recipes, this collection moves between generations, tracing Black interior life with tenderness and precision. These pages hold children learning how to survive systems not built for them, and adults learning how to name what they carried all along.

Rooted in lived experience and shaped by a teacher’s attention, the writing refuses spectacle in favor of truth. Each piece is an offering—sometimes soft, sometimes sharp.

This is not a book you rush through.
It is one you sit with.