A dazzling memoir that explores what it means to become fully alive
and holy when we embrace the silenced stories we've inherited--from the
creator of Black Coffee with White Friends.**
"Marcie Alvis Walker writes with an honesty that is both dauntless and
compassionate."--Cole Arthur Riley, author of This Here Flesh
In her debut book, Everybody Come Alive, Marcie Alvis Walker invites
readers into a deeply intimate and illuminating memoir comprising
lyrical essays and remembrances of being a curious child of the
seventies and eighties, raised under the critical and watchful eye of
Jim Crow matriarchs who struggled to integrate their lives and remain
whole.
While swimming in rivers of racial trauma and racial reckoning, Alvis
Walker explores her earliest memories--of abandonment and erasure, of
her mother's mental illness and incarceration, and of her ongoing
struggles with perfectionism and body dysmorphia--in hopes of leaving a
healed and whole legacy for her own child. Nostalgic but unflinching,
candid yet tender, Everybody Come Alive is an invitation to be
vulnerable along with the author as she unravels all the beauty and
terror of God, race, and gender's imprint on her life.
This is a coming-of-age journey touching on the bittersweet pain and joy
of what it takes to become a person who embraces being Black, a woman,
and holy in America. Alvis Walker's unforgettable writing challenges
readers to not only see and hold her story as being fully human, but
also to see and hold their own stories too.
