Home-Going

<h4 class=ql-align-center><strong><em>Rediscover the life-giving connections between us</em></strong></h4><h4 class=ql-align-center><strong><em>which neither death nor racism can destroy.</em></strong></h4><h4><br></h4><h4><strong>In a captivating blend of Black history African spirituality and personal memory <em>Home-Going</em> displaces hopeless accounts of racism and death with a story of limitless love. Saint-Jean invites us to participate in the pain and trauma as well as the creative resilience of the Black experience. He inspires us with courage and possibility.</strong></h4><p>- Valarie Kaur author of <em>See No Stranger </em>and Founder of the Revolutionary Love Project</p><p><br></p><h4><strong>In this compelling book by Patrick Saint-Jean we see how much we have to learn from the Black community about death and grief. It should be a must-read for bereavement counselors and everyone will benefit from its explanation of how life and community are inseparable. Bereavement is a health disparity because the mortality rate is higher in Black and Indigenous communities; what we have yet to realize is that these communities can also teach us about how to understand grief. What a fantastic book!</strong></h4><p>- Mary-Frances O'Connor PhD author of <em>The Grieving Brain</em></p><p><br></p><h4><strong>Arresting illuminating and categorically exquisite <em>Home-Going</em> is a gem and balm. Through personal storytelling and analysis weaving the spiritual and intellectual historical and contemporary Saint-Jean's book is an eloquent meditation on life death and community. Directing us from social sin and the epidemic of racism denial and brokenness to healing informed by African worldviews and Christianity it is a deeply layered timely edifice-supremely discerning innovative and necessary-that charts a geography of hope and renewal.</strong></h4><p>- Trimiko Melancon Professor of African American and African Studies Michigan State University</p><h4><br></h4><h4><strong>Patrick Saint-Jean provides a highly personal narrative of his journey toward justice as he also encourages us to take a similar journey. He reminds us that while we start from different places we must together embark toward stronger community.</strong></h4><p>- Chris Elias MD MPH President Global Development Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation</p><p><br></p>