Susan Straight's new memoir, 'In the Country of Women,' tells the story of the women in her family — her Swiss-German blood relatives and her African American, Indigenous and Creole in-laws.
I have friends whose people are Korean, and who have always been here. I have friends whose people came from New Mexico in 1842. And I went to high school with that family's seventh generation. I have friends whose parents came in 1880 as African Americans from Mississippi and Georgia.
I love telling people that we are a collection of people who all really fell in love because of migration and war. My generation, that was born here in the 1960s — our parents all had come from somewhere else because of the military, or places they didn't want to go back to. The cold and poverty of someplace like North Carolina or North Dakota. Or they didn't want to go back to the racism of Louisiana or Georgia or Mississippi.
You made the decision to stay in Riverside and write about the people there—kind of like Flannery O'Connor did with her Georgia landscape. Your daughters, for whom you wrote this, grew up in Riverside. They know all the places you write about, and the huge extended family you're part of. But have they stayed here, or is the lure of other places too great?
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