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In Your Hands by Brian Pinkney5/27/2023 ![]() Because for children like Omari, the stakes are as high as their mothers’ love is deep. ![]() For all its beauty and lyricism, Weatherford’s book doesn’t equivocate. But because Omari is black, his mother’s prayers take on a striking and sobering specificity: she asks for his safety in neighborhoods “beyond our own” and “as you cast a longer shadow,/ that you will be viewed as a vessel to be steered/ rather than a figure to be feared.” Pinkney (On the Ball) uses sweeping, expressive ink lines and radiant washes of color to create both an impressionistic mood and poignant immediacy. ![]() The next few years will be defined by an intense physical connection-“I kiss your scrapes and scratches/ and wipe your occasional tears,” writes Weatherford ( Freedom in Congo Square)-and then she will need to let go. A mother dreams about the future as she cuddles her newborn son, Omari. ![]()
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